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...Executive agencies are so obsessed with following the rules and staying within their budget that they never try to measure how well -- or if -- they serve the public. Gore and Clinton will insist that they commit themselves to specific performance standards and will suggest some -- for instance, that the Postal Service guarantee overnight delivery of all first- class local mail. Good idea -- but how to make sure such goals...
...Newark, New Jersey, and up the west side of the Hudson River, three locomotives lug 63 flatbed freight cars -- almost a mile of Conrail train for United Parcel and the U.S. Postal Service, due in California in 72 hours. Engineer Jim Metzger, 42, flicks his eyes like beacons from digital screens inside his cab to the roadbed and back -- right hand on the throttle controlling 11,400 horses, left hand on the three-tone whistle, two longs, a short and a long at every crossing. Past suburban backyards and friendly waves, through the West Point tunnel, rolling from 35 m.p.h...
...Lucky (Tupac Shakur), an amiable postal worker, does not at first seem the ideal partner for that enterprise. But he too has compelling reasons to break out, and a dream of redemptive creativity roughly analogous to hers: he wants to be a rapper. When they and another couple are thrown together on a weekend trip to Oakland, California, in a post-office van, edginess slowly gives way to an understanding that survives even a sudden lurch toward the tragic...
...cases revive the dormant Unabom Task Force, named for the attacks on universities and an airline. It includes elements of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the FBI and the Postal Service. In 1991 investigators compiled a psychological profile based on the chronology and location of FC's targets as well as the materials used in the explosive devices. The bomber is a white male, obsessive-compulsive, with low self-esteem stemming perhaps from physical flaws. He grew up in or around Chicago and was employed in low-level work. The investigators believe he is meticulously organized and loves...
...YEAR, THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE SEEMED TO have left behind its most disturbing problem: a decade-long string of killings (31 in all) by employees. The respite ended Thursday. In Dearborn, Michigan, Larry Jasion, upset at losing a promotion to a woman, killed one co-worker and wounded two others before killing himself. Later that day in Dana Point, California, Mark Richard Hilbun returned to the post office from which he had been fired and killed a letter carrier and wounded a clerk. He was arrested at a bar, about 20 miles north, early Saturday morning. Police said Hilbun...