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Enter an anonymous postal inspector who recently spot-checked the mail facilities at Rome's Fiumicino Airport, one of the more glacial arms of Italy's infamous postal service. The inspector found only four of the office's 49 workers on the job. As it happened, his report landed on the desk of Luciano Infelisi, a crusading magistrate, who was appalled by the absenteeism. Infelisi began to issue warrants, and he demanded that 20 ministries and state agencies hand over the names of employees with high absenteeism records. Before Italy's 3.8 million civil servants could...
...region's 102,000 sawmill employees had been laid off, while another 41,000 were working curtailed shifts. "It's like Chinese water torture," says John Hampton, chairman of Hampton Affiliates, a Portland-based logging company. "There's been no relief." Two weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service in Portland announced that it would have between 800 and 1,000 new job openings over the next three years; 18,642 applications flooded...
...Greatest Man in the World," the letter said, and the postal authorities knew just where to deliver it. To the same place where they delivered letters addressed to "God's Gift to the U.S.A." and "My Friend, Washington, D.C." To the desk of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the White House. This was not pure sycophancy in the Post Office. The mailmen also knew where to deliver letters addressed to "Benedict Arnold 2nd" and "Chief Shooter at the Moon, White Father of the Pretty Bubbles...
Karpatkin, executive director since 1974, insists that the new ventures are vital to Consumers Union. She attributes the financial plight to the state of the economy and a postal rate increase that will cost the magazine an additional $2 million per year. Says she: "The Reagan recession hit us, and our promotion results softened in the first part of the fiscal year. The second thing was a massive postal increase...
John N. Cinotti, a U.S. Postal Inspector in Boston, said yesterday that he had investigated the company several years ago, in response to these and similar complaints, but found no basis for legal action against the firm...