Word: postalized
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...Hawaiian letter carriers tell me they handle so much franked mail from the Defense Department and other units of Government that the overworked postal employees feel they are subsidizing these agencies, looking bad themselves in order to make everybody else look good. And what about postal subsidies to corporations? If everyone paid its fair share, our letter carriers insist, the Post Office, together with its employees, would find its way into the affluent part of America...
...Part of the solution of the "mail mess" would be to raise the postal rate of bulk mail. This would rid the workers of quite a load of junk mail and would raise more money for the Post Office...
...agree with President Nixon when he wanted the Post Office to be set up as an autonomous corporation. If this were done, the employees would have a better chance of rising to better positions. Also, the corporation would have the power to raise or lower postal rates...
...just read your article concerning Peter Stafford of the U.S. Postal Department, and it made me rather mad. You state that he only makes $8,030 a year, and that he should be making $11,236 merely because he has a large family. I can't see how one can determine a person's earning power by how well he can produce children. It seems to me that a person's earnings should depend on his skill and education. Can you say that a person earning the same amount as Stafford but having only...
...however, both House and Senate last week proved that they could overcome inertia and act with dispatch. While an illegal strike by "sick" air controllers entered its third week and wildcatting Teamsters threatened chaos on the highways, Congress moved quickly to head off further trouble with the railroad and postal unions...