Word: postmarks
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Once a casual outline of a running chicken carved on a bottle cork could serve as a postmark. Then came names, and now, in the name of efficiency, postal authorities have begun to do away with place names. Under a system known as Area Mail Processing, mail is picked up and taken directly off to distribution centers where huge, highspeed letter sorters shuffle through thousands of pieces formerly handled by local post offices. Instead of postmarking a letter with the name of the town where it was mailed, the AMP machines simply stamp envelopes with the phrase "U.S. Postal Service...
...seasonal conspiracy, parents and postal workers arrange for Santa Claus to answer his mail with such postmarks as North Pole, Alaska, and Christmas, Fla. For years, thousands of those letters were stamped and sent out from Santa Claus, Calif.; but the postmark has been abolished now, and the small strip of oceanfront land in Southern California where once it was Christmas every day has lost more than a postal stamp. TIME Correspondent Tim Tyler visited Santa Claus and reminisced with the town's founder...
Boston newspapers yesterday afternoon received by special delivery a letter signed by the "Proud Eagle Tribe" claiming responsibility for the bombing. The letter, which carried a Cambridge postmark, said, "[the bombing] our first action, is part of a national fall offensive by tribes of kids all over to attack the enemy everywhere he shows his ugly face...
...fugitive mails a birthday card to his child, for example. It bears no address, but does have a postmark. Or he calls a friend from a pay phone to ask about the family; his approximate distance from home can be determined when the operator says, for instance, "Deposit $1.65 please." Those geographical leads are often enough for Tracers, says Vice President Edward Goldfader, because the runaways seldom alter the familiar pattern of their lives when they take up residence in a new city. They do not change their names, often because they fear their inability to respond naturally if someone...
...TIME'S editors for the importance of their ideas and the excellence of their writing. We may even award more than one prize in each category-for that's the sort of thing that one would expect of a Tom Swift. In case of duplicates, the earliest postmark will determine which one gets the prize...