W.B. Mason

W.B. Mason is the largest privately held office products dealer in the US. It competes with Staples, OfficeMax, and Office Depot. The company is based in Brockton, Massachusetts, and primarily serves New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Mid-West. It has over 60 distribution centers across the United States. The company has 3,435 employees, 1160 sales representatives, over 750 delivery trucks (leased from Ryder), and over 230,000 customers. W.B. Mason is the largest customer of Essendant.

History

W.B. Mason was founded in 1898 by William Betts Mason in Brockton, Massachusetts, where its headquarters is still located.

William Betts Mason was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1865. Upon his father's death in 1872 he immigrated to the United States with his American born mother and two sisters where they settled in his mother's home town of Brockton, Massachusetts. In the 1880s he began working in the printing and sign making trade and eventually became a master engraver.

In 1898, Mr. Mason founded W.B. Mason, a business which sold printing, engraved products and rubber stamps. As the shoe industry exploded in the early 20th century in Brockton (making the city a candidate for the shoe capital of the United States), growth in the city's business exploded and W.B. Mason added office supplies to the company's sales offering. Mr. Mason died in 1912.

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Socialist Propaganda League

The Socialist Propaganda League was a tiny socialist group active in London from circa 1911 to 1951.

The League was formed as a result of an early dispute in the Socialist Party of Great Britain and of the optimistic belief of the Party’s founder members that the socialist revolution was near. A group of members around Henry Martin and Augustus Snellgrove wanted the Party to take a definitive stand on the attitude socialist delegates elected to parliament or local councils would take towards reform measures proposed by one or more of the capitalist parties.

In February 1910 a letter from "W.B. (Upton Park)" was sent to the Socialist Standard asking,

The perspective of this small group of members was that no reform of capitalism could ever be supported by the party claiming to represent working-class interests as it was not the job of socialists to take part in the running of capitalism. Any attempt to do so would run counter to the famous ‘hostility clause’ of the Party's Declaration of Principles. The Standard’s reply on the matter, backed by the Party’s Executive Committee, stated that

W postcode area

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The W (Western and Paddington) postcode area, also known as the London W postcode area is a group of postcode districts covering part of central and part of west London, England. The area originates from the Western (W1) and Paddington (W2-14) districts of the London postal district.

Postal administration

The Western district consists of the single original W1 postal district. The area it covers is of very high density development and it has been subdivided into a number of smaller postcode districts. Where districts are used for purposes other than the sorting of mail, such as use as a geographic reference and on street signs, the W1 subdivisions continue to be classed as one 'district'. In June 2000 there was a recoding of the area with the W1M, W1N, W1P, W1R, W1V, W1X and W1Y districts replaced.

The mail centre for W1 is London Central and for W2-14 is Greenford.

Deliveries for W1 (and for WC1 and WC2) came from the Western District Office office on Rathbone Place, until it was decommissioned. This office was a stop on the former London Post Office Railway, which has been mothballed since 2003. The Western District Office was initially located on Wimpole Street, which was also a stop on the London Post Office Railway.