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Many businesses are giving up on the postal system. Some, like Fiat, are arranging to send orders by Telecopier...
...President Ford lived in suburban Alexandria, Va., he kept a listed telephone number in an attempt to be available to his constituents. When Ford became Vice President nine months ago, he reluctantly took an unlisted number, and last February his old number was passed on to David Taylor, a postal worker, and his wife Alicia. Two or three times each day the Taylors got calls for the Fords. They found the calls intriguing-until Richard Nixon's presidency began to topple. Throughout resignation week, the calls came with nerve-jangling frequency, mostly from well-wishers urging Ford to prepare...
...Postal Service has been taking some withering criticism, thanks to rising rates and declining service, but Postmaster General Ted Klassen seems to be weathering the snow, rain, heat and gloom of day in executive style. At least according to Washington Watch dog Jack Anderson, who has made Klassen a particular target. Last week Anderson attacked Postal Service expenditures for Klassen's first-class offices in Washington's L'Enfant Plaza Building. More than $300,000 was spent to decorate the tenth-floor executive suite, charges Anderson, including $5,280 for a private pantry...
...Portugal's new-found sense of freedom. Since the coup, Portugal has been virtually paralyzed by a succession of strikes and work stoppages. From Belem Palace, Spinola asked for tough new guidelines on pay raises for the unions. He also succeeded in ending a three-day strike of postal workers by warning them that if they did not return to their jobs he would send in the army to sort the mail. Military arm-twisting was also used to end a month-long walkout at the Timex plant outside Lisbon...
Strong opposition to the proposal came from Senator Hiram Fong of Hawaii, who called the legislation "a raid on the U.S. Treasury." But Postmaster General Elmer T. Klassen, who has sternly opposed past attempts to moderate postal increases, quietly supported the McGee bill, sending associates to Capitol Hill to lobby for its passage. Observers think that Klassen's change of heart stemmed from his recognition of the growing burden on publications that use the mails...