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...heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds -- but if they are late, they'll hide or trash your mail and no one will be the wiser." That seems to be the new motto for certain employees of the U.S. Postal Service. In a surprise audit disclosed last week, postal inspectors in Washington found that some local managers temporarily stashed unprocessed mail in parked trailers so that the letters and packages wouldn't be immediately noticed as delayed. Millions of pieces of undelivered mail were found, including 2.3 million bulk- business letters...
Though Arafat's arrival in the Gaza Strip marked another step toward the beginning of Palestinian self-rule, much remains to be done. Public security was successfully handed over to Palestinian security forces in May. But civilian administration of Gaza and Jericho -- in such matters as education, health, taxation, postal service -- has remained in limbo. Arafat has named 18 of the 24 members of the Palestinian Authority that will administer the areas until elections are held, but they have established no real control yet. Hours before Arafat's appearance last week, Haidar Abdel-Shafi, a former Palestinian negotiator, said...
...director Kenneth Godshall, assistant director Hala Makowska negotiated a contract with Congressional Quarterly Inc. to provide us with the voting data base. Production director Brian O'Leary and staff painstakingly coordinated the technical and printing efforts that allowed us to trace all our subscribers down to their block and postal route to identify their legislators and then ink-jet those specific records individually onto each of their magazines. Normally, such a procedure takes up to five weeks. We now have it down to 48 hours...
...Postal Inspector Michael Kmetz, as quoated in yesterday's New York Times Magazine. Kmetz was referring to a set of counterfeit postage stamps now in circulation bearing likenesses of Fisher and Tonya Harding, among others...
Hank Slonina, the Eliot House superintendent,said mail must come through the University mailsystem or the U.S. Postal Service...