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...spread as software makers perfect electronic signatures that senders can use to authenticate their E-mail messages, thereby reducing the need for hard copies of such documents as wills and contracts. The post office is fighting back with some wizardry of its own in the form of an "electronic postmark"--a digital time stamp that, for a fee, can be used to certify that E-mail has been transmitted...
...musical Christmas cards has turned toward the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas that is home to Mohammad Salameh, one of four people convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. "We are treating it as a terrorism matter," FBI spokeswoman Susan Lloyd said. The bombs discovered Thursday, carrying a postmark of Alexandria, Egypt, were mailed in plain, white, 5 1/2 by 6 1/2 envelopes with computer-generated addresses and no return addresses. Four went to the Washington office of an Arabic newspaper, Al Hayat, at the National Press Building, and one was found at a post office handling the newspaper...
...Postal Service have received about 500 calls with tips on the bomber, an ATF source told Jackson. "It takes time tracking them down, but they are still appealing to the public to call in with tips," says Jackson. "They have no clues." Two they have: the San Francisco postmark and the initials "FC" on pieces of most of the 15 bombs deployed over the last 16 years. The feds' tip line: 800-701-BOMB.Post your opinion on theCrimebulletin board...
...over Washington, politicos have been nervously checking their mailboxes for days. Where were the invitations to one of the liveliest annual parties in town? Is the Senator annoyed with us? How have we offended him? Not to worry. The postmark on the green-bordered, red-lettered card tells the whole story: PM 11 DEC. 1991. When Willie Smith's trial ended late last Wednesday afternoon, fleet-footed Kennedy staffers raced to the post office with preaddressed invites to UNCLE TEDDY'S annual Christmas bash...
...been grateful just to be admitted to Harvard--he had been nixed from Stanford and Georgetown when the bulky packet with a Cambridge postmark arrived for him in April, 1987. "I figure I was probably the 1600th kid to get in," he says with a grin. "They took a chance...