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...woman in West Germany who gave her husband the cube for Christmas is seeking a divorce because of it. Her complaint: 'My husband hardly speaks to me ... when he comes to bed he is too exhausted from playing with his cube to even give me a cuddle' ... An English postal engineer [reported] that cube playing had reduced his office's efficiency to zero, but that 'being a government department, no one noticed...
...countless number of aging, vacant federal properties that are literally wastes of space and money. So it was that first thing Monday morning, Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on federal financial management, signed a liability waiver and joined high-ranking postal officials on a 45-minute walking tour of the mammoth mothballed structure. "The federal government has no complete record of what properties it owns or what their condition or availability is," declared Coburn, who also held a formal committee hearing on the issue that same day. "We need to be better stewards...
...most recent indicator of the breadth of the building inefficiency scourge comes from a 2003 U.S. Government report that identified 927 vacant and underused federal properties controlled by just three agencies: the General Services Administration, Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Postal Service. Under Coburn?s questioning, Get Moy, the Director of Installation Requirements and Management at the Department of Defense, conceded that he could not offer a firm number for how much the Pentagon spends to maintain underutilized buildings, though he could offer that between 1998 and 2004, the department met its own target of shedding 86,000 sq. feet...
...1980s and early '90s, the Chicago postal system couldn't exactly be counted on to deliver. Literally tons of mishandled mail was unearthed in the basements, backyards and car trunks of active and retired workers. A government task force of postal experts declared the city?s postal system "in disrepair." More than a decade later the service problems have been largely cleared up, but one monumental emblem of those humiliating bygone days-all 2.5 million square feet of it-still sits undisturbed...
...main post office, the largest postal facility in the world when it was completed in 1934 but now just a hulking, dilapidated symbol of federal mismanagement. Since it closed in 1996 as the sparkling- and notably smaller-new state-of-the art facility opened across the street (after its own $133 million in cost overruns), virtually nothing has happened with the vacant building, except that taxpayers keep shelling out $2 million each year in "holding costs" to pay for security guards and bare-bones electrical and heating costs. Assorted stakeholders-federal and local government officials, potential private developers and landmark...