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20 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Thurs., Nov. 11. 1982 Realty sales Reagan seeking Potato skins: BUSINESS • ' up in town better relations brown gold What's best way to Send packages? ... page 3 ... page 10 ... page 20 We are entering the peak weeks for mailing packages United Parcel Service. Common sense should make you offers discounts on multiple shipments even for small and heavy letters that MUST arrive on time. TV com ask; boes this really have to be at its destination shippers and a small number of packages. mercials have been bombarding us with terrifying pic tomorrow? Check with the recipient and agree on,jvhen For Small items, all the competitors offer an over Rain ending Manchester, Conn. tures of what happens to the sender when a vital packet Y o u r the item should arrive. Your recipient may be unaware night service. ’The Federal Express Courier Pack holds arrives too late for a critical meeting. But do your of the alternatives and almost automatically request up to 2 pounds and costs $22; similarly, the Purolator Saturday afternoon Friday, Nov. 12. 1982 packages really have to get where they’re addressed M o n ey 's that you send your packet for overnight delivery. Skypack costs $20. Emery charges $21 for its Envelope tomorrow morning? Are you being conned into paying All competing mail services assure you that if they A.M. Service; the same package sent via P.M. Service — See page 2 25 Cents for services you don't qeed? What are the alternatives? W orth can’t meet the delivery terms, they will charge you for costs $19. UPS will charge $11.83 for a Ipound package. Mrralb As just one illustration, consider a 10-pound package Sylvia Porter the next, and lower, rate. For instance, if you send a ’The Postal Service offers Express Mail, too. (Make that is being sent from New York to Los Angeles. Here pared via Emery A.M., and it doesn’t arrive before sure your letter’s destination is in the Express Mail are some of the possible ways to send it. along with the noon, Em ery w ill bill you at the P.M . Service rate. network.) The Postal Service promises if your package rates. does not arrive by 5 p.m. the next day, you can get a full Most couriers include pickup with the mailing cost. • If you send it via United Parcel Service (U PS), you refund if you apply for it. Up to 2 pounds costs $9.35 0 For Federal Express, though,’ if you wish a Saturday can select Next Day Air Service for $22.27; Second Day anywhere in the United States; above that varies. ■delivery (not pickup), expect to pay an extra $10. UPS Air Service for $12.83; and UPS Ground Service (five package arrives before noon the next day for a cost of Shop around. Rates vary according to weight and dis charges $2.75 to pick up your packages ($4 in New York business days) for $5.01. $45,80; and with P.M. Service, it arrives before 5 p.m. tance and not all areas are covered by all competitors. Thousands pay respects to Brezhnev City). However, that charge entitles you to as many • That same package, this time sent by Federal and costs $43.21. E m ery’s Day Two Service runs $30.24. pickups as you need that week, for any UPS service. (Save money as you organize your budget with Sylvia Express, will cost $44.50, with delivery guaranteed • If you send the package via Purolator. its next day Porter’s Financial Almanac for 1983 — a functional and before 10:30 a m. On its one-to-two-day service, you will service will cost you $41. The competition is highly aggressive. If you send informative desk calendar/handbook featuring Porter’s pay $20.23 — and Federal Express claims that up to 70 • And U.S. Parcel Post will mail it for $6.62. Delivery frequent shipments (from now on, particularly), inquire best budgeting tips and money-saving advice. Send $8.95 percent .of mailings in this category arrive the next day. time? Ten days to two weeks. about discounts. With the exception of UPS, each cuts plus $1 for mailing and handling to Financial Almanac in • Emery Worldwide offers a First Flight Service for Obviously, the more rapid the service, the higher the its rates. Federal Express monitors the billings of its care of the Manchester Herald, 4400 Johnson Drive, Andropov new Soviet party leader $196,21 The package arrives the day you send it; it flies expense — but it doesn’t follow that fhe slowest method customers and if. over a quarter, you maintain a $30 Fairway, Kan. 66205. Make checks payable to Universal on a commercial carrier. On Emery’s A M. Service, the is the cheapest. Parcel Post easily can cost more than average per day, you are entitled to a discount. Emery Press Syndicate.) of further enhancing the economic Communist Party to be split \ By Steven R. Reed head of the KGB, was formally nominated by his chief rival for the and defense might of the U.S.S.R., between two men, at least initially. Related etorlea United Press International job, Konstanti^ Chernenko, in a improving the welfare of the Soviet Andropov Thursday had been named chairman of a committee MOSCOW — Former KGB chief show of party unity. people, strengthening peace and on page 10 organizing Brezhnev’s funeral. The Yuri Andropov was unanimously There was no indication who carrying out all the Leninist Retail sales slow; would succeed Brezhnev in his se domestic and foreign policies that appointment was the first, signal elected today to succeed Leonid Yuri Andropov's sinister that he eventually would be picked Brezhnev as Communist Party cond major post as president. The had been pursued under Leonid image as former KQB chief to replace Brezhnev in the position leader and vowed to safeguard the Supreme Soviet, which chooses the Brezhnev,” the communique said. conceals that of a career of general secretary. Soviet Union with “ the uncrushable nation’s president, is scheduled to ‘‘ In this situation, the duty of each politician. The official Tass news agency and might of the Soviet armed forces.” meet Nov. 23. of us, the duty of each Communist is Soviet broadcast media GNP may decline The naming of Yuri An T en s. of thousands of Russians Andropov promised “ he will to consolidate our ranks more simultaneously announced An dropov as Soviet party waited in mile-long lines through the devote all his energy, knowledge closely...for the good of the Soviet dropov’s election. leader comes as no sur heart of Moscow for a chance to pay and experience of life to the people, for the strengthening of Immediately after the unanimous By Denis G. Gulino the recession prise to the White House. their last respects to Brezhnev, who successful implementation of the peace, for the triumph of com vote at a secret emergency meeting United Press International And an administration spokesman says further Leaders In Europe and lay in state on a flower-covered bier program of building communism,” munism,” he said. of the Central Committee, the party declines in factory production and other economic in the Mideast are predicting in the House of Unions just o ff Red Tass said. Andropov, who served as am W ASHINGTON i I'P I I — Paying customers continued dicators may force a downward revision in the measure ‘ ‘We know well that you cannot bassador to Hungary during the 1956 leaders went to pay their respects to a thaw In East-West Square. Brezhnev at the House of Unions to be scarce'at retail stores in October, disappointing of the gross national product for July through Within hours of the official an beg for peace from imperialists,” Soviet military intervention thdt relations. near the Kremlin. enin<imists who arc waiting for a spending surge to end September. nouncement ,of Brezhnev’s death Andropov said in a speech before the crushed an armed uprising against The family of Leonid The Politburo members, led by Retail sales increased by just 0.6 pereent last month, Wednesday, the Central Committee Central Committee. " I t can only be the communist regime, was chosen Brezhnev viewed his open Andropov, filed into the chamber the Commerce Department said Wednesday, with met in a secret emergency session safeguarded by relying on the un in May to replace the late Mikhail automobiles and furniture almost the only things being coffin today as thousands Suslov as the party’s ideologist. where Brezhnev lay atop a bier p /n B r ie f --------------- and unanimously elected Andropov crushable might of the Soviet armed decked in flowers and his medals, I. bought in greater quantities. of citizens waited to pay as the party’s new general forces.” Analysts and Soviet sources said YURI ANDROPOV Total .sales of retail stores, adjusted for routine He also pledged himself “ to en they expected Brezhnev’s dual posts respects. secretary. PIrimr liirn to 10 . unanlnnous election sea.sonal buying trends, were estimated at $89.6 billion Andropov, 68 and for 15 years the suring continuity in solving the tasks as head of state and chief of the Realtors to Vneet in October. 3.6 percent higher than a year ago. .Manchester Board of Realtors will have its an .September's sales figure, first reported to be up 1 per nual meeting and election of officers and directors cent from August, turned out to be less of an improve lor the hoard and the Manchester Multiple Listing ment.