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Initially, some of the demonstrators struggled with the 15 officers and postal inspectors, who stood at the top of the steps, over the placement of the trees, some of which still had Christmas tinsel hanging from their branches...
...feeling of the small towns and above all the sense of individual independence. "There's a way of life disappearing," says Orson Rollins, 69, a retired rancher who now operates a service station in Craig, Colo. "We never used to lock our doors. That's gone." Says Postal Clerk Helen Stout, whose onetime sheep town of Parson, Wyo., is now filling
...talking about form 1040. And always grant them the post office: as Clark recounts in his book, "In Rochester, New York, in 1976, the husband-and-wife team of Paul and Patricia Brennan started up a mail-delivery service. Originally motivated by frustration with the inefficiency of the U.S. Postal Service, the Brennans found that they could deliver mail within the city more quickly and at a lower cost than could the government--and still make a profit." You won't win this dispute, since everyone has had a letter lost by the U.S.P.S. at some time or other. Give...
...charge. In 1968 only a third of the nation's three-to fiveyear-olds were enrolled in nursery schools or kindergartens, but by 1978 the number had jumped to more than 50%. "Right now," says Robert Munro of the Bentley School in Oakland, Calif., "we have children of postal workers, bus drivers and truckers." Not only can such parents pay, they also share a belief that public schools, even in kindergarten, are unreliable. Because of the possibility of strikes, curriculum cutbacks, busing problems and even school closings, says David Fleishhacker, headmaster of the Katherine Delmar Burke School...
...flap over the Dial grew, the U.S. Postal Service at week's end retreated from its earlier decision to allow the Dial's sponsoring stations to use their cheap mailing privileges to distribute the magazine. Instead, Public Broadcasting Communications Inc. must now apply for its own nonprofit mail permit. Vows Dial Publisher Morton Bailey Jr.: "We're going to fight this thing to the very end. We're going to play hardball on this because we're right." As Bailey comes to the plate, however, he is likely to face some smoking fastballs...