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Last year, one student was caught by postal inspectors for receiving two kilos of marijuana. The Harvard Police confiscated the pot and the student was placed on probation...
...flight. At "Spirit of St. Louis" banquets in seven cities, the Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Fund hopes to raise $500,000 for conservation, exploration and aeronautic research. His widow Anne Morrow Lindbergh, along with Sons Jon and Land and Daughter Reeve, is appearing at the dinners. The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a special stamp showing the Spirit of St. Louis in flight. In Washington, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, where the plane is on permanent display, has assembled a collection of Lindbergh memorabilia - including his flying outfit, a $25,000 check...
...nine-member commission, headed by retired Chicago Banker Gaylord Freeman, estimates that dropping Saturday deliveries would save the Postal Service $412 million a year. The commission will also recommend further mechanization of mail handling to save $134 million annually, and suggest other improvements in management and productivity that would save $78 mil lion. Total savings: $624 million annually. Also proposed is the gradual elimination of subsidized postal rates for nonprofit organizations...
Even with all those savings, says the commission, the Postal Service will need more money from the Treasury. Labor costs continue to rise, and there is also the expensive business of distributing mail door to door throughout the country. At present, besides the income it derives from the sale of stamps and from special fees to people and businesses that use the mails, the Postal Service gets two subsidies paid out of tax money. One is a varying yearly appropriation that is supposed to hold down rate increases; this year it is $792 million. In addition, the service now gets...
...Nielsen Co. survey that it commissioned, 79.5% were willing to give up Saturday mail delivery to keep costs down. The public, the survey found, is most interested in the dependability of mail delivery. The commission will throw in one palliative in its report to Congress: a recommendation that the Postal Service close no more post offices unless there is a vacancy in the postmastership, "or the Army Corps of Engineers floods the area" - a rare bit of bureaucratic whimsy...