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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 21, 1984
There is so much wrong with
all the help they can get.
children, but it's good to
really cares.
the world today and these kids need
Not many people are concerned about
see a man like Mr. Armstrong who
D.B. (St. Louis, MO)
I think the program was fantastic! I have eight grandchildren,
and I'd like it if they could all go to one of your summer camps.
Mrs.
w.c.
(Shreveport, LA)
Thousands of Dollars Saved on Semiannual Mailing
Remember when you could mail a letter in the United States for a nickel?
That was some time ago--1967 to be exact. However, Mr. Armstrong's recent
semiannual letter was mailed to regular subscribers at an average cost of
less than five cents per piece. This was quite a blessing for the Church of
God.
How were we able to do this? By utilizing special postage rates available
to nonprofit organizations who sort their mail down to the finest possible
detail. For example, where we have ten or more subscribers on a single mail
carrier's delivery route, the postage is only 3.3 cents. There were 1.3
million semiannual letters which qualified for this rate.
Fifty or more pieces going to the same five-digit zip code can be mailed for
just 4.3 cents. Half a million semiannual letters were sent by this rate.
The remaining letters were mailed for 5.2 cents.
Overall, 2.3 million letters were mailed for about $90,000 or an average of
3.9 cents each. If we had to use the full first class rate, the cost would
have been $460,000.
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ON THE WORLD SCENE
HONG KONG'S FUTURE SEALED; UNESCO AND THE
UN--WASHINGTON'S STEADY WITHDRAWAL
Wednesday, December 19 marked two significant events. The first involved
the formal signing of the agreement ceding Hong Kong to China (details in
our December 7 report). On the same day, the United States made it official
that it will definitely leave UNESCO--the United Nations Educational, Sci
entific and Cultural Organization--as of the end of the year, citing evi
dence that hoped-for reforms in the world body failed to sufficiently mate
rialize. Regarding the first event, here is how it was described over the
UPI wire service, datelined Peking, December 19:
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao
Ziyang today signed a historic agreement transferring capitalist
Hong Kong to communist rule in 1997. The accord, which will end
nearly 150 years of British colonial rule in the world's third
largest financial center, was signed by the two leaders at 5:30
p.m. (4:30 a.m. EST) during a nationally televised ceremony in
Peking's Great Hall of the People •... Among the more than 400
guests in the Great Hall to witness the signing was paramount