Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your staff held a meeting at the White House with magazine publishers, in which you indicated that you will continue to oppose both additional federal appropriations to defray the increasing costs of public services provided by the U.S. Postal Service, and funds for phasing increases in second-class mail rates, as authorized by Congress...
However, it is unfortunate that you proceed from that damaging conclusion to a further one that labels appropriations to make up these deficits as "subsidies" to the mail users. For what has been responsible for these soaring red figures? A number of elements have contributed, of course: ques tionable management, an expensive capital-equipment program, outdated and perhaps unnecessary services. But there is one factor that stands out above all: salary and benefit escalation for the nation's approximately 700,000 postal workers. While I do not want to pass arbitrary judgment on the merits of the labor contracts...
...mixed blessing and warned that "slanted news" would be corrected. Opposition newspapers feared that any abuses might come from the government, which has sole control over the network. "The mere presentation of the world at large is bound to have a far-reaching effect," editorialized the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail. But so powerful a visual medium, it said, could also become a propaganda weapon "particularly when, as in South Africa, it is so much under the thumb of the political party in power...
...Soviets have already put one of their SSTs (nicknamed "Concordski" by Westerners because of design features obviously copied from the British-French plane) into service on a domestic cargo and mail run from Moscow to the central Asian city of Alma-Ata. The Concorde is not far behind. The French plan to start SST service later this month from Paris to the Senegalese capital of Dakar (2,860 miles) and then on to Rio de Janeiro (another 3,189 miles). At the same time, Britain will launch Concorde flights from London's Heathrow for the 3,162-mile trip...
...problem with the U.S. Postal Service is the problem with all bureaucratic operations: it operates under Murphy's Law, which says that if anything can go wrong, it will. All evidence suggests that private enterprise could deliver the mail cheaper and more efficiently than the government can, but the issue will not be resolved until Congress decides to permit free competition in postal service. The postal patron has a great deal to gain from such an experiment, and nothing to lose but his thirteen-cent stamp...