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...noisy blasts against Postmaster General Summerfield may have turned the House Appropriations Subcommittee "purple," as you say [April 15], but until the hue of Congress becomes more purposeful than regal, the statistical peashooters will continue to confound the postal problems. Let Congress discover the basic causes of the ever-increasing postal deficit; updating the rules would be the first step necessary to reduce or eliminate the postage avoidance practices which shrink postal revenue...
...Board of Engineers," to provide for "more local participation in approved projects,?' and to "withhold authorization and construction of all but urgently needed projects." He asked Congress to "establish interest rates for Government loan programs that will induce private funds to participate in their financing." He plugged for postal-rate increases and argued for user charges (levied against plane operators) on federal airway facilities...
Across the U.S. the effect was instantaneous and anguished. Wailed the New Rochelle (N.Y.) Standard Star: CITY MAILMEN WON'T RING EVEN ONCE. Some 1,000 of New York City's 35,000 postal workers were threatened with being laid off this week, and there were grim predictions of an unholy traffic tangle, as 6,000,000 pieces of Saturday mail piled up in New York City post offices alone. Growled the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer: "Mr. Summerfield's sitdown strike has become unbecoming and disrespectful." Some political critics were unkind enough to recall the 1952 Republican platform...
...Office cannot use a cent of it. Reason: the receipts go into the general fund of the Treasury, while the Post Office lives strictly on appropriations from Congress. So, said Summerfield, "if Americans decide to send more mail than the department estimated they would in its budget, then the postal service must deliver that extra amount of mail. This costs extra money...
...budget the President has submitted is geared to continuing prosperity at a rate six percent higher in this calendar year than in 1956," Byrd said. "His budget also takes into account a proposed 600-million-dollar increase in revenues through a boost in postal rates, which Congress might not approve...