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...McDonald's, has become a how-to manual for executives eager to put their firms on the fast track. It is Topic A in seminars, skull sessions and water-cooler chitchat. Excellence themes have suddenly turned up in the advertising campaigns of businesses as diverse as the U.S. Postal Service and Bloomingdale's, the chic department-store chain. On the lecture circuit, Peters and Waterman each command up to $15,000 an appearance...
...Post Office not only was neglected, it nearly fell to the wrecker's ball. In 1899, the building's flossy exterior blended well with the theaters, taverns and whorehouses that enlivened the 1 ½-mile esplanade. The atrium design permitted postal inspectors to prowl catwalks, checking up on mail sorters below. But as Government grew more dignified, its architects demanded cool, neoclassic superblocks on the Avenue of the Presidents. To them, the Post Office seemed as out of place as flamboyant Diamond Jim Brady at a state dinner. Abandoned in 1934 by the Post Office Department, the building...
...Doctors have told me that Brett's operation could cost anywhere from $80-$150,000, without complications," Leslie Wethington says. "With complications," she adds, "the costs could go up to $300,000." Ed Wethington is a United States Postal Service letter carrier in Palatine, Illinois. Hill's husband works as a recording engineer in Chicago. "Of course I worry about the money," Leslie Wethington continues. "But I know that Brett's going to have this operation no matter what...
...Post Office Department announced last week that every address will have a five-digit number added to it after next July 1. The system, known as "Zip" (for Zone Improvement Plan), is designed to speed delivery of first-class mail as much as 24 hours by enabling postal clerks to tell at a glance how to route a letter...
Other companies have found a wide variety of operations that can be done better underground. For H&R Block, the caves are a safe place to keep tons of tax forms. The U.S. Postal Service's Philatelic Order Fulfillment Branch, with 48 employees, processes 1,200 requests daily from its hole in the ground. It likes the security advantages and the fact that in the low-humidity atmosphere the $100 million worth of stamps it keeps there do not stick together...