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Word: zips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of the new rates, more companies will deliver letters to the Postal Service in bundles presorted by Zip code, for which they now earn a penny-a-piece discount; that discount will double under the new rate schedule. Security Pacific Bank, for example, will shortly mail all customer statements not from its 530 branches in California but from its Los Angeles headquarters, using automated equipment. Some businesses may turn more to private mail-delivery services; the Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest and Time Inc. already use carriers to hand-deliver some papers and magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Postal Inflation | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...Come now (though if you insist, this was the primary source for both Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" and Rossini's "Barber of Seville"). Profundity? Not a smidgen, I hope. But for you brain-becobwebbed hordes, here's energy and elegance, a jewel-box set and pure Goya costumes, zip and charm and beguiling idiocy... tonight through Sunday at 8; call 864-2630 for ticket information...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Just Desserts | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...family just gave you a brand new little sports car for your birthday, and you're just dying to bring it up to school and zip around Boston. No more trips home on Amtrack, no more mad dashes for the last subway out of Park St. You're a free spirit now, a real independent individual...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: You Can't Pahk Yah Cah In Hahvahd Yahd, But... | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

That was midway through the second period, after first-period, crease-scramble jobs by Gavin Thurstrom and Dave Harrington had given the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead after one. Weston's Wally Row made it three-zip before Harvard got on the board...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Yale Ruins Icemen's Finale | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...problem, I mean I pulled a real boner. Believe it or not, I went to the Coop and bought a whole mess of cards. I bought them for relatives, lovers, friends, foes and fiends alike, then I filled them all out and the envelopes too (making up zip codes randomly as usual). Then the phone rang. When I came back I sealed the envelopes and, ignoring my roommate's urgent pleas to wait, I dashed out to mail my Valentines. You know what he wanted to tell me? While I was on the phone he took the cards...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Massacre of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

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