Word: postally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Postal Service has its way, Americans will soon have to pay an extra $10 a year for stamps. Last week the agency announced that even though it plans to curtail service, it would seek an average 19% increase in 1991, less than three years after the previous jump of 16%. First-class postage will go from 25 cents to 30 cents, while rates for second- and third-class mail -- the mainstay of catalog distributors and magazine publishers -- will soar as much as 33%. Business and consumer groups are already organizing strong campaigns against the increases, which the Postal Rate Commission...
Letter carriers usually fret about dogs; now they're worried about copycats. Postal workers are afraid that mail bombings in the South, which left a federal judge and a civil rights lawyer dead, were models for two unrelated episodes last week. In Brooklyn, a booby-trapped .22-cal. sawed-off rifle, which failed to go off, was mailed in a briefcase to a federal prosecutor. In Houston a Pentecostal minister's daughter suffered burns when she opened an exploding parcel addressed to her father...
...McClure of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service faults publicity for the spate of bombings. The service now has an Atlanta hot line to take calls about suspect packages. "We are trying to get members not to panic," says Moe Biller, president of the American Postal Workers Union...