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...remote from the way officials regard themselves or the way they have generally been seen by the public. The canap?s-and-cocktails crowd whose mission is to protect and pursue Australia's interests is not superhuman. dfat officials who were watching events in prewar Iraq, acting as a "postbox" for AWB contracts under the U.N. aid program and keeping their ministers up to speed, are just like the rest of us - they forget where information comes from and the names of people they deal with on official business. dfat loses important letters, officials perform "back-of-the-envelope calculations" about...
Protective Coloration. In San Antonio, harassed Postmaster Dan Quill begged that municipal trash cans be painted orange - or almost any color but postbox green...
Mildred Walker says she began writing at the age of seven. From the time she was 12, she was periodically embarrassed by the village postmaster in Grafton, Vt., where her family spent its summers. Mildred's rejected manuscripts were too bulky to fit the family postbox, and the postmaster handed the packages out to her personally...
...Every postbox in the House and the Yard dormitories is the property of the Federal Government and comes under its protection. By the Postal Laws and Regulations, "anyone who wilfully places anything other than mail matter therein for the purpose of avoiding mail charges is liable to a fine of $300 for each such offense...
...Akron goes down Tuesday morning, the 4th. TIME writes a detailed account of the tragedy, goes to press, gets mailed, and is in our postbox in Los Angeles Friday afternoon...