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When Postmaster General Donaldson announced (TIME, May 1) that he was going to fire or furlough 10,000 postal employees and cut home deliveries down to one a day, many a member of Congress thought the Postmaster General was maneuvering them up against an electric fence in an effort to get more appropriations and higher postal rates. Last week the Senate's Post Office Committee 1) resolved unanimously to ban reduction of mail service, and 2) reported out a bill by which the reduction order could be forbidden by law. Since the Senate Appropriations Committee was also...
Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson ordered drastic cuts in mail service, and the probable furloughing or firing of an estimated 10,000 postal workers, to offset the department's growing deficit ($551 million for fiscal 1949) and the $25 million cut made by the House Appropriations Committee in postal appropriations for the coming fiscal year...
Congressmen, still getting their mail on the old schedule, began to find in it protests from constituents. The A.F.L.'s National Association of Letter Carriers cried mournfully that Donaldson's order was "a rape of the postal service," and an "illadvised" rape at that. He had committed it, if rape it was, before the Senate had a chance to act on the House's budget cut; the Senate, hearing the angry rustle of citizens stuffing protests into their mailboxes, might give back the $25 millions...
...postal economy dictum will make local carriers cover more area than usual, but only once a day. Also, rather than the present two trips scheule, collections from boxes in the Square area will stop about 6:30 p.m. instead...
College. The charge: stealing a five-shilling postal order. At ruinous expense, the boy's family fought official smugness and red tape to get him a fair hearing. In winning his exoneration, they also affirmed the right of the humblest citizen to demand justice from the state...