Word: stampings
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...first-class service, in which he has a monopoly, to underprice competitors in such areas as parcel delivery. Sympathetic lawmakers have responded by proposing laws that would limit the range of postal services. Runyon is certain to raise some hackles this summer when the price of a first-class stamp rises a penny, to 33[cents]. It will be the first such increase since 1995. The price of a stamp has quadrupled since 1971 in virtual lockstep with inflation...
...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...
...matter with your spiritual leader. But what can you do--really do--to help NORM MACDONALD get back his job as the anchor of Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update"? Join our letter-writing campaign! Simply clip out this letter, blow it up 60% on a copier, affix a stamp and send it to Don Ohlmeyer, the man who took away Norm...
...read with interest about the Henry R. Luce postage stamp, scheduled to be issued in the spring [TO OUR READERS, Dec. 8]. I wish that when I bought stamps, I could get those with images of Luce and other great Americans on them. But all I seem to be able to find are stamps with pictures of flowers or "love swans." I suspect that someone in the post office has put his grandmother in charge of the distribution department. STEVE BEUTELSPACHER Baltimore...
...hand-engraved image on the stamp is based on a 1962 picture taken on the island of Majorca by Alfred Eisenstadt, one of LIFE's--and this century's--great photojournalists, whom Luce hired in 1936. Reproduced as a drawing on TIME's cover when Luce died in 1967, this particular photograph captures the formidable intelligence and fierce concentration that made Luce a great editor--and now, officially, a Great American...