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Like locusts, unsolicited mail has always been a durable plague. It keeps coming back. To stem the descent, an instructor of English at Eastern Michigan University has developed a novel defense. Roger C. Staples, 34, recently complained to local postal authorities that several firms, ranging from Sears to J. C. Penney, were deluging his Ann Arbor home with unwanted "lewd" mail...
...said local postal officials. The department-store and other ads that offended Staples could not be considered pornography. Chacun à son gout, said Staples, obscenity is in the eyes of the recipient; and he took his case to Washington. He argued: "I consider the advertisements for beds, sheets, pillows, girdles and intimate feminine articles offensive." He turned out to be right. Postal laws do indeed say that the recipient of mail is the sole judge of what is obscene. So out went a federal order to all the firms that had been blithely inundating Staples like any potential customer: they...
...context in which it appeared, the quotation implied that I favor continued political patronage in the Post Office Department and had argued at the White House against President Nixon's proposal to convert the present postal system into a public corporation...
...facts are that I have repeatedly called for removal of politics from the Post Office Department in the past and that I issued a strong statement in support of the President's public postal corporation on the day Mr. Nixon sent his postal-reform message to the Congress...
...only endorsed the proposal. I urged that Congress "take every vestige of politics out of our postal system." In addition, I urged a letter-writing campaign so that members of Congress will know that the people want postal reform...