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...last. What could be more old-fashioned than wrestling a postage stamp out of its perforations, coating one's tongue with glue and watching the stamp come unstuck along the edges? Sure enough, that ritual is now headed the way of the penny postcard. Last week the U.S. Postal Service introduced EXTRAordinary Stamps, a line of peel-and-stick, self-adhesive postage stamps billed as "the most thoroughly researched and tested issue in U.S. stamp history." The new 25 cents first-class stamps will be test-marketed for 30 days in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Minneapolis and ten other...
...Danehy method, however, may have a few problems of its own. As Councillor David E. Sullivan immediately commented, a federal criminal statute prohibits anyone but postal employees from placing any material in mailboxes...
...seemed to be another helpful offer from your friendly U.S. Postal Service. When after-hours depositors sought to stuff their cash receipts into night depositories at a number of Dallas-area banks, they found the slots jammed and an official-looking notice that read: TEMPORARILY OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE UTILIZE THE U.S. MAILBOX FOR YOUR NIGHT DEPOSIT. Sure enough, one of those familiar curbside mail drops had been placed invitingly at hand to accept the money...
...sites. There they arrested Joe Ben Hunsaker III just after he had loaded one of the mailboxes into a pickup truck and was taking down an OUT OF ORDER sign. Alleging that he had used the innovative scam to steal $10,000 since early August, Postal inspectors said they would charge him with theft of the mailboxes and of the contents that trusting citizens had sent to the wrong destination...
...Said it will decide whether the governmentmay prohibit soliciting on all Postal Serviceproperty, including the sidewalks adjacent to postoffice buildings...