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Against the backdrop of a nuclear holocaust, the plans often straddle the line between prudence and absurdity. The Civil Service Commission's crisis provisions include this regulation: "Employees reported as dead should be carried on administrative leave until the reported date of death." A Postal Service regulation, activated upon nuclear attack, would suspend the need for postage stamps on letters and postcards sent to devastated areas. Special delivery would be eliminated systemwide except for shipments of medicines and surgical dressings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doomsday Blueprints | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...Your Heartaches Begin, the two tunes he cut that day back in 1953, as well as 14 performances never before released -- is available in this hefty, have-to- have-it compilation, which features a scrupulous discography, an excellent essay by critic Peter Guralnick and, in a nod to recent postal madness, a "limited edition" stamp sheet made up of Elvis record covers from the '50s. These stamps are suitable for framing or pasting but not posting, which suits just fine: it's the music that carries the message anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The King's Ransom | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

Under the new time-saving system, the U.S. Postal Service will deliver all first-year mail to the Science Center, and the mail will be sorted and put into mail boxes from there by University employees, Carbonneau said this week...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Mailroom to Be Built | 7/17/1992 | See Source »

...decision to change the system was prompted by a postal inspection two years ago, Carbonneau said. "A postal services inspector realized that we were not supposed to be doing what we were doing," he said...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Mailroom to Be Built | 7/17/1992 | See Source »

...federal postal service granted a two-year "grace period" for the entire University to convert to the new system, Moore said...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Mailroom to Be Built | 7/17/1992 | See Source »

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