Word: kappel
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...were postal workers placated by Nixon's plan for postal reform. The Administration was committed to a plan developed in 1968 by a ten-man Commission on Postal Organization headed by Frederick Kappel, former board chairman of American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The plan recommended abolition of the Cabinet-rank position of Postmaster General and the creation of a Government-owned corporation with power to set postage rates with congressional approval (see box page...
Fearing loss of their civil service status and diminution of their leverage in Congress, the unions opposed the Kappel plan. So did a good many Congressmen, who were apprehensive that such a plan would deprive them of their patronage power. Moreover, the postal unions are the largest and most politically active civil service bloc and, though their vote power has not resulted in high wages, they still influence many Congressmen. Nixon indicated, however, that he would veto any postal-pay bill that did not include creation of a postal corporation. To resolve the impasse, he called in Rademacher and they...
...President's Commission on Postal Organization declared that each year the Post Office "slips farther behind the rest of the economy in service, in efficiency and in meeting its responsibilities as an employer." The commission, headed by former A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick R. Kappel, cited among the Post Office's top problems "widespread disquiet among postal employees" because of "antiquated personnel practices, poor working conditions, limited career opportunities and training...