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Ferraro wants the vice-presidential nomination, but she is careful not to seek it too hard. Facing a congressional election in November, she devotes several days a week to trekking through her old neighborhood, popping in at every function from bar association luncheons to meetings of retired postal carriers. Whenever a bubblingly optimistic host introduces her as "our next Vice President," Ferraro grins winningly and soft-pedals her chances. "I'm truly most concerned about one thing," she says, "and that's beating Ronald Reagan. If a woman on the ticket would make a stronger ticket...
...area. The result was a shortage of critical parts in the important West German auto industry. By the end of the week the stoppages engulfed 69,000 more of the country's 680,000 auto workers. Sympathy strikes could touch banking, public transport, textiles, insurance companies and the postal service. Audi, the luxury-car unit of Volkswagen, could be forced to shut down in two cities this week. BMW, the Bavaria-based car and motorcycle maker, has already closed two plants. Porsche and Mercedes-Benz might also curtail production...
Your article on the improved mail delivery we now get [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, April 2] states that the Postal Service can handle 400 million pieces each day and that employee productivity has risen 43% since 1971. After I read those statistics, I decided maybe the post office is doing a good job. A week later, I received five Christmas cards and my 1983 year-end edition of TIME...
...even that Harry Truman regularly wrote to his wife. There are people today who receive a wedding invitation and answer with a telephone call, or forget to answer at all. There are people today who are psychologically unable to write a letter to anybody on any subject. Meanwhile, the postal system has silted up with all the debris of computerized commerce: catalogues from Wisconsin cheesemakers, offers of stock tips, pleas for charitable donations...
...woman has said. "The falling was just an endless series of announcements, like 'The messenger service doesn't stop here on Saturday any more.' " The only thing needed to make the decay of the telephone service even more exasperating is the same pollution that afflicts the Postal Service, not junk mail but phone calls from computers that summon you out of the bathtub to hear their spiels for more life insurance. The Internal Revenue Service has even acquired computers that will telephone an alleged delinquent all day long until he answers...