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This past December 1 began a dialogue with the White House on the Postal Service. Parts of that dialogue were reported in these columns, and since then a flood of editorials and news stories, congressional debate and public discussion, changes in the U.S. Postal Service-actual or threatened-have made the post office a fiercely hot subject...
Very possibly we are seeing the beginning of some consensus on how to maintain the Postal Service. At least I am struck by the fact that knowledgeable people who may have dissimilar points of view on other matters have lately expressed remarkably similar ideas about the postal dilemma...
Senator Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.), in an unusually wide-ranging article scheduled for the May issue of the Notre Dame Journal of Legislation, raises the question of how "a political conservative who ordinarily is skeptical of more public spending" can support postal appropriations that the White House opposes. The Senator answers with six detailed reasons, the final one being that "free speech, and all that means to the general public and our way of life, is truly involved." Noting "the historic role of the public mails as promoting public enlightenment and the security of a free people," Senator Goldwater concludes...
James Rademacher, the president of the Letter Carriers union, agrees with Senator Goldwater-on that. In a recent letter to the White House, Mr. Rademacher also argued for the appropriations or the public service subsidies that are necessary to maintain postal service. "It seems to be a modern fallacy," he observed, "that says the post office should pay its own way ... Does the Department of Commerce...
...letter to the White House, Mr. Rademacher expressed his fear that without a substantial postal subsidy, "the postal establishment is going down the drain." That echoes the concern of the chairman of the House Postal Service Subcommittee, James Hanley (D., N.Y.), who in a recent insertion in the Congressional Record said that those who continue to be against public service subsidies "will either purposefully or inadvertently lead the Postal Service to ruin...