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...been nearly two years since I last used this space to report on the nation's continuing postal problem. Since then, some progress has been made on legislation to deal with that problem, though it has not shown up in your mail service. Now even the legislative progress has been halted by White House intervention. Last June a bill was introduced into the House of Representatives designed to make the postal system once again viable and effective. Its authors are James M. Hanley of New York and Charles H. Wilson of California, who over the years have taken...
Then on Jan. 17 President Carter stepped into the legislative process. He asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill to delay consideration of a rule that would allow the postal bill to come to the floor for a vote. This is a highly unusual attempt by the White House to prevent congressional deliberation of an important national question...
President Carter would apparently like to avoid responsibility for the Postal Service. The thrust of the Hanley-Wilson bill, which he is moving to kill without a vote, would indeed return management of the Postal Service to presidential responsibility. It is the sense of Congress that the public service commitments of the postal system should be continued without interruption and that these services should be financed by tax dollars...
...agree with you, which makes it doubly difficult to understand your acceptance of crisis management in the Postal Service and your failure to endorse Congressional efforts to resolve postal problems...
...stamp-the smallest ever issued by the U.S. Government-wins public acceptance, the Postal Service may soon adopt the smaller format for all the 13? stamps that it sells in sheets. Since about 3.6 billion of them are issued each year, the annual savings in paper is expected to be some $700,000. Sorry, but the economical ministamp cannot be sold in rolls; that would make obsolete all the vending and high-speed affixing machines...