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...many of these ideas will be accepted. Indeed, officials fear pending decisions may go the wrong way. The Administration, for example, may restrict imports of Citizens Band radios, which will push up prices. Postal workers are expected to demand a substantial pay increase when their contract expires in July; the Government may yield. Carter has refused to support a congressional move to roll back huge increases in Social Security taxes scheduled to start next year. And the President so far has tended to view regulatory decisions in an isolated, case-by-case way, rather than weighing their inflationary impact. Further...
...money for itself. Inertia was perhaps tolerable when federal pay was not competitive with the private sector, but that is no longer the case. Secretaries, stenographers, keypunch operators and other clerical employees for the Government often earn more than similar workers in private industry. Average hourly wages for U.S. postal employees are one-third higher than the average for insurance and telephone companies and electric utilities...
...Pistol-Packing Postman. Beaman Hysmith, a mail carrier, shot a co-worker in the chest. While he was serving his sentence, the Postal Service dismissed him. Hysmith appealed his dismissal and won reinstatement because of a procedural flaw: the same person who proposed Hysmith's ouster had reviewed the case. The Post Office had to shell out approximately $5,000 in back pay for the time Hysmith was out of work pending his appeal, but with proper paper work it finally axed him permanently...
...plane SR-71 with its filming equipment can cover more than 150 sq. mi. so precisely as to locate a mailbox on a country road, I think the postal service should be given a chance to have a look...
...fully a third of the autos in New York City, Boston and Chicago ran on electricity. Now, in the era of the oil crisis, the electric auto has started to return, on drawing boards and occasionally on the road, moving slowly but polluting not at all. The Postal Service operates 380 electric Jeeps, and at least ten U.S. firms produce electrics for adventuresome customers. But electric cars are a long way from mass production. Who wants a car that cannot...