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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can stay the P.H. Brennan Hand Delivery Service from its appointed rounds, but the U.S. Postal Service has finally succeeded in doing so. For more than two years, Patricia and Paul Brennan delivered first-class mail along with other papers and parcels in downtown Rochester, N.Y. For 10? a letter, they guaranteed same-day delivery and served close to 400 satisfied clients...
...Postal Service, charging that the Brennans violated its statutory monopoly on first-class mail, filed suit last year to close them down. A federal judge ruled against them, and as appeals were heard, the Brennans operated on a day-to-day basis...
...benefit 4,100 of the nation's 16,000 school districts. The Senate will vote shortly on next year's Impact Aid program, and proposed changes could well send the cost leaping to nearly $1 billion. Some members, for example, want to expand the coverage to include children of postal workers, and even foreign embassy kids...
...this expansion is Representative William Ford, a Michigan Democrat who comes from one of the three congressional districts that now do not get Impact Aid?but will do so, if the changes are enacted as expected. Says he: "Why make a distinction between the federal employee wearing a postal uniform and one wearing a Navy uniform?" It is on logic like this that Impact Aid will again glide through Congress. Yet until Congress and the public realize that Impact Aid is not funny money but comes from taxes on everyone, there is scant hope of controlling federal spending...
...Counting overtime and other premium pay, postal workers actually average $8 an hour...