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...events. As stressed later by the President's economic message, the slight surplus is based on predictions of continued economic progress and increasing tax revenues; the greater the income of individuals and corporations, the greater the Government tax take. The surplus is also predicated on expectations of increased postal rates and great good luck...
Disguised Strike. Letters and packages that were "incorrectly" addressed, in most cases because they failed to specify postal zones, were returned to senders or dumped at the dead-letter office. Britons who tried to phone instead of writing were equally frustrated; the post office operates the telephone system, and its switchboard operators conscientiously handled only one call at a time, staying with it until the number answered "as per regs," instead of handling five or six simultaneously...
...government's anti-inflationary ban on wage raises for public employees. Post office employees earn 3.5% less than industrial workers (a mailman averages $30 weekly), but Postmaster General Reginald Bevins flatly refused an increase, offered only to study the subject. To make up for the slowdown, he ordered postal employees to work overtime, but it was like trying to melt a glacier. At Mount Pleasant. London's main sorting office, the backlog rose to 5,000,000 letters. Railway stations were swamped: in one shed alone at Euston. 100,000 mailbags waited four days to be picked...
Without Good Will. Industries and mail-order stores organized their own makeshift postal services. Unhappiest vic tims by far were a Yorkshire laborer, Len Darnton, and Surrey Garage Hand Gabby Senecal, who both mailed in winning football pool coupons but failed to collect $27.000 and $75,000 because their entries were not delivered in time...
Emboldened by the postal workers' success, 39 other unions (total membership: 3,000,000) voted at week's end to stage a one-day walkout against the government's "pay pause." But the post office employees, in keeping with the dignified traditions of Britain's civil service, insisted to the last that their strategy did not constitute a slow:down strike. "What we are doing," explained a union official, "is merely withdrawing our good will...