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...party loyalties (he is a Democrat) and become an assistant secretary for labor-management relations. That job led to a 1973 appointment as head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Along the way, Usery honed his skills as a peacemaker in dozens of bitter disputes, including the 1970 postal workers' strike, the 1972 teachers' strike in Philadelphia, last September's walkout at National Airlines and even the wildcat strike of players in the National Football League...
...considered a joke since the days of that leader who, as they say, made the trains run on time. After all--a government which professes to fall every three months or so, but gets back on its feet after some portfolio shuffling; a system so corrupt and inefficient that postal employees sell mail to pulp mills, and civil servants use chauffeur-driven limousines (paid for by the rare person naive enough not to cheat on his taxes) to drive their relatives across the country; and economy in such chaos that major cities have been officially bankrupt for almost two years...
...salesman of snack-filled "survival kits," who offered his product to parents of Harvard freshmen by mail, is not liable for mail fraud, a spokesman for the Postal Inspection Service said yesterday...
...Postal Service, which desperately needs those subsidies." Earlier the Senator had warned his colleagues that without those subsidies the Postal Service would be "fragmented and struggling for survival...
Congressman Hanley summed up his experience of a decade in dealing with the postal problem: "It is wishful thinking to believe that we can continue the kind of service we have enjoyed and which has been remarkably beneficial to the country without providing substantial funds from the general treasury. To be sure we must ferret out waste, and we cannot tolerate slipshod management. But money will still be needed over and above that generated by postal rates...