Word: postally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Powell, the challenge isn't to attract offers--he gets a plastic Postal Service bin full of letters each day. The challenge is to separate the ideas that will work from other well-meaning but impractical ones. For instance, he likes American Express's summer program that pays teachers to train students in the travel-agency business. "I asked them to double it to 5,000 kids." He realized during his book tour that remaindered books get destroyed. "I told Harry Evans [his publisher at Random House] to figure a way to get these books to kids." He pulls...
...though it's questionable whether they've been heard. On a National Public Radio call-in program, a ticked-off citizen of Castine, Maine, (whose downtown P.O. was spared last year after cbs's This Morning took up its cause) chewed out Postmaster General Marvin Runyon: "Doesn't the Postal Service have some kind of obligation not to rip small communities apart?" Runyon, a former auto-company executive, responded with executive generalities concerning aging buildings and population growth, then effectively reversed himself. "It is not our business to be closing down small post offices," he said. "Our intention...
...folks in Livingston, where the fight has reached a pitch that rivals last year's Freemen standoff. In December, volunteers stood outside the post office in subzero weather and gathered 1,500 signatures on an antimove petition. Regional officials in Denver took notice. Postponing the decision to relocate, the Postal Service hired a market-research firm to conduct a telephone survey. However, Cooper and others found it insultingly biased--not a sincere sampling of opinion but the basis for a slick p.r. offensive...
...poll's results and the statements of postal officials bear out Cooper's cynicism. Though the survey found that a majority of residents want to keep their post office downtown (including 79% of the senior citizens, who tend to walk there), postal spokesman Robin Wright dismisses the stay-putters as "emotional" and says the poll "is a private kind of deal" to "help us with our strategy." An internal Postal Service document makes this "strategy" as plain as bureaucratic doublespeak can be: "Provide a clearer identification of the 'real' underlying concerns by the antimove advocates, along with compensatory responses designed...
When it comes to the Postal Service, building a bridge to the 21st century apparently means burning countless bridges to the past. Livingston won't have to wait much longer to see which side of this canyon it ends up on. According to Wright, the decision is expected to be made by next Monday. In the meantime, thousands of locals are hoping the movie marquee across the street from their beloved post office isn't a grim coincidence. In stark black capital letters, it reads, THE RELIC...