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AWAKING EARLY ONE MORNING WITH A tight, nauseated feeling, Catherine McCamey, a retired Washington postal clerk, took two antacid tablets and tried to fall back asleep. But when the tightness in her chest turned to pain, she took a cab to the hospital. There doctors told her that she had suffered a heart attack and that four of her coronary arteries were blocked, and she had to undergo bypass surgery. Two years later McCamey, now 64, remembers her bewilderment over the incident. "I was really shocked," she says. "I thought it was mostly men who suffered heart attacks...
Some used their profits to start up other ventures: a postal system, a comic book, a loan agency. Disputes eventually led to the creation of laws, police, courts and a constitutional convention (democracy triumphed over a police state by a single vote). As they began to discover the relevance of reading and arithmetic through managing their miniature society, Richmond's students also discovered in themselves an enthusiasm for education -- and a hunger for more...
Marvin T. Runyon may never get his mug on a commemorative stamp, but in just one month on the job as Postmaster General, he has already had a bigger impact on the Postal Service's bottom line than the popular Elvis issue. Last Friday, in a dramatic bid to stem 10 straight years of red ink and bureaucratic bloat, he announced cuts of about 30,000 managerial jobs -- including more than half of the top 42 posts -- over the next three months, and a major restructuring of the way the service...
Known as "Carvin' Marvin" during his tenure as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Runyon will have his hands full trying to remold the way 750,000 employees handle (and sometimes mishandle) 540 million pieces of mail each day. When legislators set up the Postal Service as a government-sponsored corporation in 1971, they naively predicted an end to taxpayer subsidies. But the last time the service broke even was in 1982; the projected deficit for this year alone is $2 billion...
SORTING MAIL. The U.S. Postal Service uses voice-recognition systems in 30 big postal centers to sort bundles that cannot be processed by its automatic equipment. A human reads the ZIP codes off the labels, and the system directs the packages to the proper chute. The Postal Service figures it is cheaper to buy a computer to do the job than to train people to memorize which ZIP codes correspond to which locale...