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...Touch. In 1959 Indira made the trip to Allahabad and back by train, traveling third-class; there were only three journalists along to watch her press on indefatigably for 16 hrs. a day through the villages, drinking innumerable glasses of sweet, milky tea and, in one village, sharing a simple meal of vegetable curry with the inhabitants. This year she arrived by special air force turboprop and helicopter; she carried her water with her from New Delhi and, as she marched briskly between the mud huts, ankle-deep in dust, she was preceded by a running dogfight between reporters...
...obvious solution to the problem of steadily deteriorating mail service is to legalize private competition in first class mail, and to lift those restrictions which inhibit competition in other classes of mail. In many areas, private companies already compete successfully with the Postal Service in second- and third-class mail, despite those restrictions and despite the fact that the USPS charges less than cost on such mail, subsidizing it out of revenues from its biggest money-maker, first-class mail. In Congressional hearings in 1974, Congressman Philip Crane reported that the American Postal Corporation was delivering advertising to over half...
...rates for local mailing of newspapers would shoot up 250%; books and records, 96%; third-class bulk advertising, 35%; and fourth-class parcel post, 67%. The inevitable result, say Wenner's critics: use of the mails would drop, Postal Service revenues would fall, and the entire system would be in a deeper hole than it is now with its $800 million annual deficit. The individual first-class user might save a few dollars a year. But, claims Coleman Hoyt, distribution manager of the Reader's Digest, the saving would be cancelled by increases for other classes of mail...
...other countries, railways in India provide the vital arteries of commerce, superseding airplanes, pipelines and highways. Masses of passengers stuffed into third-class coaches are as much a part of the Indian scene today as they were in Kipling's raj. But even more than carrying people, India's trains are necessary to keep the country's economy moving. Nearly 70% of India's food, fuel and freight are transported in 420,580 railway cars over the system's 39,000 miles of tracks. Indian Railways is the fourth largest in the world* and India...
...Government corporation has been "so hellbent" on cutting costs that "we perhaps lost track of services." He pleaded for "more time" to build a fast, reliable service. National Postal Founder Peter Olsen proposes a different solution: have the USPS concentrate on handling letters and publications, and turn over all third-class mail delivery to the private entrepreneurs. Such mail has always lost money for the Government, Olsen notes, but "we have been making a comfortable profit"-about $170,000 last year. Besides, permitting private carriers to use mailboxes would eliminate what is rapidly becoming a suburban eyesore: the sight...