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...Friday, postal workers in the nation's capital were ordered to work overtime on the weekend to clear the backlog of mail. Just two years ago, Postmaster General Marvin Runyon promised to turn the district's postal service into a "showpiece" of modern technology and efficiency. Yet, in a recent survey by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse, Washington ranked dead last among urban areas for on-time mail delivery. Several members of Congress -- angry because some of the delayed letters in Washington could be from constituents trying to contact them -- charge that the mail holdups could be illegal and plan...
...parks. In March the Senate approved a bill to boost the government's cut and open contracts to fair competition. The House is on the verge of following suit. Payments would be earmarked for the parks, which would help reduce the park system's $2.2 billion backlog of maintenance and repairs...
Cole also says the recon project has been critical for the efficient cataloguing process of both Hilles' and Lamont's collections. Prior to the conversion, there was a "backlog" of books which had not been catalogued, Cole says...
PERSONNEL. The boat people will probably be interviewed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, already burdened with a backlog of 400,000 refugee applications. Immigration officials in Haiti came under fire last August when one of the INS's own internal monitors publicized the ineptitude and anti- asylum bias he observed in Port-au-Prince. He was sacked but later reinstated...
Eugene E. Kim '96, the president of the Harvard Computer Society, said the new set-up will "prevent the mail backlog that's been plaguing HASCS for the last three to four months...