Word: postmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through Italy's autunno caldo (hot autumn), some 5,000,000 workers walked off their jobs-traffic cops, bus drivers, postmen, teachers, garbage collectors, steel and auto workers, even casino croupiers. Newspapers took to printing daily "strike calendars," and by telephoning 85 85 45, beleaguered Italians could hear a recorded message informing them which walkouts were on for that day. Last week, however, one group of workers took the unusual step of calling off a scheduled 72-hour strike. They were employees of the Italian Red Cross, and they were desperately needed to help out in the country...
...winter, on an investment of $2,000,000, they formed the Independent Postal System of America. Right now their corporation handles only third-class "junk" mail (which accounts for 27% of all mail), mainly in Oklahoma, with outlets in Tulsa, Ardmore and Oklahoma City, plus one in Dallas. Independent postmen pick up the mail, sort it at central clearinghouses, truck it to delivery routes. Then white-uniformed, bonded carriers trudge to each house, put the mail in plastic bags, which are hung on doorknobs (nobody but a U.S. postman is allowed to place anything in mailboxes). Supervisors conduct frequent checks...
...service is cheap-only $25 per 1,000 pieces, v. $42 per 1,000 pieces for the U.S. mails. And it is fast. While the U.S. Post Office spaces delivery of third-class mail over several days, the independent postmen guarantee 100% delivery on the date specified by each client. Says Bill Overstreet, sales promotion manager of J.C. Penney's Tulsa stores: "A while ago, some of our advertising was delivered by the Post Office ten days before our sale was to begin, and customers started coming in expecting the bargains that were in the circulars. Now, with...
...that a faltering Viet Cong needs to defect, including a safe-conduct pass and a map of the local district showing precisely where-and how-to find the Allied side. Throughout the country, the kits will be hand-delivered to Viet Cong families by an extraordinary assembly of postmen: former Viet Cong who, as Hoi Chanh (returnees), have become members of the government's armed propaganda teams. The kit will be only one more reminder-along with the Tet songs on the radio, the broadcast planes overhead and the millions of leaflets -that the government's Chieu...
...budget reaches into every national nook and cranny. It concerns itself with appropriations for a nuclear aircraft carrier, for cancer research and free school milk, for the cost of shoveling snow in Washington. It takes up the building of hydrogen bombs, Christmas vacations for Job Corps enrollees, postmen's rounds. It sets out the figures for developing a vaccine against syphilis and paying the pensions of 10,500 surviving veterans of the Spanish-American War. From the smallest single project ($5,000 for the Potomac River Basin Commission) to the largest ($3.6 billion...