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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. Postal Service postponed hearings yesterday in its attempt to cut off the incoming mail service of four Boston area termpaper companies...
Thomas A. Ziebarth, a lawyer for the Consumer Protection office of the Postal Service, said yesterday that the hearings were delayed pending the outcome of the Justice Department's appeal of a court decision. That decision forbade the Postal Service from temporarily impounding the incoming mail of the company...
...Time Inc., gave the reason: "We persevered as long as we could see any realistic prospects, within a reasonable time span, of a turn-around in LIFE's economy." Those prospects were extinguished this fall with melancholy prognoses for decreased circulation and advertising pages. These, coupled with postal-rate increases (amounting to 170% over five years) made the end inevitable. At the meeting, the last of LIFE's six managing editors, Ralph Graves, announced his assignment was to help place LIFE employees in other jobs. But he warned, "I won't pretend that any place else...
Over the past four years, the magazine has lost an estimated $30 million. Attempts to spur a financial upswing by cutting distribution "a solid demographic, circulation" were frustrated by drops in advertisers and a 170 per cent increase in second class postal rates over the last five years, an official at Time said yesterday...
Inspector Robert G. Hale of the U.S. Postal Service said yesterday that 800 envelopes--all sent first class--had been collected, each containing one cigarette. Phillips Academy has 930 students...