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...more users every day and, in many respects, it is already changing society, just as other media have changed society. As the Internet continues to grow--when every school is wired to the Web, as so many politicians promise, and when everyone has an e-mail address from the postal service--how will society change, and will it be for the better...
This February she stepped down from her job to work full-time on a biography of her great-great-grandmother, Madam C.J. Walker, a civil rights activist and pioneer in the hair care industry. An expert on Walker, Bundles successfully lobbied the U.S. Postal Service to feature her ancestor on a stamp last year...
...Naval College cadet, 13, was dismissed on the charge of stealing a five-shilling postal order. His father's legal challenge to the Admiralty made the case a celebrated one. Terence Rattigan's 1946 play ignored the element of religious prejudice (the boy was Catholic) but mined the domestic, romantic and political realms to create a superior, stiff-upper-lip weepie. The surprise is it still works, in this beautifully judged film with Nigel Hawthorne as the righteous father and Jeremy Northam (an Olivier incarnate) as the famous barrister who takes the case. Have a good thought and a quiet...
NATURAL SELECTION The U.S. Postal Service recently announced that video games and the fall of the Berlin Wall top the list of subjects Americans want on stamps representing the 1980s. Next month people will vote on '90s stamps. We asked ninetysomethings and nine-and-unders for their input. Can you guess who chose what...
MAILSAFE Under new postal regulations intended to stamp out mail fraud, anonymity will disappear for anyone who rents a private mailbox from a store like Mailboxes Etc. A photo ID will be required to set up a private mailbox, and a special identifier, called a PMB number, must be part of the address. The U.S. Postal Service is hoping that consumers will be more alert to rip-offs by phony charities or fly-by-night operators that don't have a real street address...