Word: senders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Signs are they haven't done so. Despite a $585 million high-tech makeover for the Postal Service over the past two years, the odds have not improved that a letter will get from Boston to Miami in less time than the sender could drive it there. Performance on first-class mail delivery was at a five-year low in 1988, and complaints about late mail rose 35% last summer. For the workers, automation, heavier mail loads (especially during the Christmas rush) and outside competition have turned a once cushy job into a form of boot camp in eight-hour...
...Washington's Smithsonian Institution finds a carton on her desk. She is stunned. Inside the box are some clumps of dirt and a note proposing that the contents -- the remains of her grandparents, freshly dug up from a New England cemetery -- be put on display by the museum. The sender is a part-Navajo conservator at the institution, furious that such a fate has befallen the bones of his ancestors...
...after opening ceremonies, before any of them competed. A few days later two Chinese speed skaters and a coach flew home, again before racing. Injuries, explained Chinese officials. Then there was the emigration of Soviets en masse from Calgary: 55 left prematurely, some of them ski jumpers returned to sender because, a Soviet official said, "as the competition was postponed, they could not participate anymore." Canadian immigration authorities ran a phone line for athletes who "needed help," but no applications for asylum were announced...
...have heard and seen you on the news," began the letter, which was stamped "please inform sender of the correct mailing address...
Last year, Leslie recieved a box of Golden Godiva chocolates. The sender was not identified and, because of an address mix-up, the chocolates were spoiled by the time the professor and his wife received them. This year, the Leslies were again sent a mysterious Valentines gift of candy, and the FBI analysis concluded that these chocolates contained the same poison as those sent to the judge. Reportedly, people at Duke and Yale received similar packages...