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...money, claiming that Bakker's fall from grace was causing a drain on funds. He warned that Satan would find ways to thwart God's work. Obviously, Swaggart pays God's salary and He recently demanded a raise. But the Bakker sex scandal did not stop the flow of postal trucks arriving every day at Swaggart's complex, which has its very own zip code...
...across the country these days, horse-drawn, hand-pushed and pedal- powered vehicles are reappearing, along with kerosene lamps, candles and firewood stoves. At the same time, many of the basic trappings of 20th century life, such as electricity, gasoline, running water and postal services, are declining or vanishing. Since 1979, when the Marxist-oriented Sandinista regime ousted Dictator Anastasio Somoza, much of the country's economic and industrial infrastructure has fallen into ruin. Under Sandinista rule, Nicaragua's foreign debt has risen from $1.6 billion to $7 billion, while real wages have fallen by 90%. Inflation is estimated...
Some years back, James Russell Wiggins, editor of the Ellsworth American in Maine, wanted to prove to readers how pitifully slow was the U.S. Postal Service. So he proposed a race: he sent letters to a nearby village, one through the Postal Service and others by oxcart, canoe and bicycle. At the pedals was a local celebrity, Writer E.B. White. The Postal Service lost every race, and Wiggins gloated on the front page...
Which is apparently the same attitude Postal Service employees maintain. If you work at the Central Square Post Office, you know what it is to be busy all the time. Busy, busy, busy. So busy that you'll let the phone ring 14 times before you answer it. So busy that when the caller's questions are non-mail-service-oriented, you only have three things to say: "Yes, the Post Office is the most difficult job. I can't talk about it. I really don't have the time...
...Japanese save and save and save. The typical family has about $61,000 put away, which amounts to 1.7 times the average annual salary. The most popular places for Japanese savings are the more than 23,000 branches of the government's Postal Savings Bureau, even though interest on its accounts runs as low as 1.7%. The bureau's $871 billion in deposits makes it the largest savings institution in the world...