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Other Loans. Four other men who helped Meese out of financial difficulties also wound up with federal positions. They were John McKean, who lent Meese a total of $60,000 in two loans in June and December 1981, and became a member of the Postal Service board of governors on July 31, 1981; Thomas Barrack, who spent $70,000 of his own money to help Meese find a buyer for his California house in the summer of 1982 and became Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in December 1982; Gordon Luce, chairman of Great American Federal Savings Bank...
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...says William Bolger. "It can change faster than your mind can change." Such pronouncements would be routine from the boss of an ordinary company, but this one comes from the U.S. Postmaster General, talking about what at one time was the bumbling, inefficient, overstaffed, deficit-ridden, money-losing U.S. Postal Service...
...more. In the 13 years since its conversion into a Government corporation with a-mandate from Congress to become financially self-sustaining, the Postal Service has turned first class. It is handling more mail than ever: 119.4 billion pieces last year, 400 million pieces every workday, up 4.7% from 1982. That is more by far than any other postal system in the world. Since 1971, the service's load has increased by 35 billion pieces, to 18 million new addresses...
...Postal Service corporation is carrying that load with fewer people: 678,845 vs. 741,000 in 1971. Employee productivity has gone up 43%, chiefly because of mechanical mail sorting. In 1971, a postal worker processed 120,212 pieces a year; now a person handles 173,320. Output will go up even more when high-speed optical scanners, which read addresses, convert them into printed bar codes and then send them off for automatic sorting into 136,000 carrier routes, are fully installed...