It was a black woman postmaster for a year
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that year is missing, well I guess you already know that. here are some phone numbers, maybe someone from the USPS can tell you\nUnited States Post Office   \n358 W Harrison St - Chicago, IL 60607\n(800) 275-8777 \nChicago Post Ofc Employees Credit Union  (312 431-8945  \n433 W Van Buren St - Chicago, IL 60607 \n(312) 983-6287
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She is black and they can get away with anything because they are protected.
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Actually, I don't think the average person knows how much mail she gets on a daily basis, all asking for help of some kind. And the millions of e-mail, containing the same messages. She had a show, where she showed what the inside of her mail room looked like. It showed stacks of mail, all from one day. It nearly filled the room! She has a full-time staff that's dedicated to reading that mail. It's rare that a few of them get picked to receive anything. Mostly, it's to make the show look good...and Oprah. I sent her a letter, a couple of years ago, reagarding me needing teeth really bad. I didn't have insurance at the time, with one tooth being impacted. I never got a response that told me they had even received my letter. I have, since then, received some help and got my teeth fixed. I'm not necessarily saying you'd never get chosen, I'm just trying to be realistic. You might be waiting for the rest of your life. Or, you could be one of the "chosen ones" and things would be really great for you. I would like to encourage you to see if your community has a Habitat For Humanity, and make out an application to receive one of their homes. You would be making small monthly payments on a home that you helped build. The payments are interest free...you only pay on the cost of the materials, plus property taxes and insurance. It's what I and my husband did. We've lived in our home now for over a year and we love it. They did such a good job, and we were very much a part of the work that went into our home, even picking out the rugs & colors of the cabinets! This is a very good program and is based on how bad the place is where you are now living. If you're living with others, sharing rent, you would still qualify. You also must have income of some kind. It's all based on need and ability to pay, even if you only have a small income. Give it a try. Anyone else that reads this can give it a try too. It makes your home that much more yours when you've worked on it. <*)))><
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When someone submits a mail forwarding request, the post office will forward their mail for a year.  After that, all of the mail is returned to sender.
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Sarah Goode was the first African American women to receive a U.S. patent. Patent #322,177 was issued on July 14, 1885 for a cabinet bed. Sarah Goode was the owner of a Chicago furniture store. Below you can view the patent issued to Sarah Goode. \n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgoode.htm\n\nand this one to get full info...\n\nhttp://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/inventors/goode.html
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Oh, I love this question.  When I was a senior in high school, our Spanish teacher got us interested in pen pals.  I chose one from Honduras.  We wrote back and forth only a few times.  Then, one day, out of the blue, a girl from Tokyo wrote ME a letter, introducing herself.  SHE picked ME.  We wrote for about three or four years and I have all the letters she wrote me  and most of the stuff she sent me, (what would fit anyway) in two large photo albums.  That was over 25 years ago.  How much do you think the postage stamps would be worth now?
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Vonetta Flowers was the First African American to have won the Gold Medal at the Olympic Winter Games. (in bobsleigh)
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Anything is possible with the post office.
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Try http://usps.com. They should know.
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There's someone with a lot of time on their hands.
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I get screwed by the government when I go to the grocery store, and more times than not an African-American woman is in front of me with 2 carts loaded down with food, pulls out foods stamps from her wad of money and then loads her free groceries into her Escalade. That's how I feel screwed.
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She helped someone commit a murder....duh.  If anything she got off with a slap on a wrist....because she was black.  That's the real face of racism in this country.
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It can take up to a year.
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Woman: handkerchiefs, a box of christmas cards, a crystal bell, a pretty tea cup and saucer\n\nMan: pen & pencil set, 2007 pocket calendar, hankerchiefs, coffee mug
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She was very inspirational by carrying on the work of her late husband.
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My grandmother - sadly she passed away last year
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Write to her at least every week!  Most people in the service love to get mail from home.  You are doing a nice thing!