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Word: postmark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than two weeks passed without further word. Then on Aug. 15 Hearin received a handwritten letter with an Atlanta postmark. In it Annie implored her husband to pay the ransom. Hearin wrote twelve checks for a total of $1 million, equal to the amount of the court judgments against those named on the list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No One Home | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...attire. They were married in Blindheim, a village 20 miles northwest of Augsburg, which has the postal zip code of 8888. The ceremony was scheduled for precisely 88 min. past 8 a.m. on, of course, 8-8-88. Ten thousand philatelists also swarmed into Blindheim to collect a rare postmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: When Eight Was Enough | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

Imagine six weeks' worth of British mail, more than a billion envelopes, stamped with the postmark JESUS IS ALIVE! It's enough to drive a nonbeliever round the bend. So it was no surprise that an outcry ensued when the slogan premiered last week, courtesy of Paul Slennett, owner of a religious book shop, who paid $88,500 for the postmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: What a Mailstrom! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...chain that has sold 400 franchises in 32 states. Its business has doubled in each of the past four years (1985 revenues: $4.6 million). Other private chains include Washington State's Pony Mailbox & Business Center, which has spawned 31 shops in four states, and New Jersey-based Postmark International, with 14 outlets in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SERVICES: Storefront Post Offices | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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