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Citizens now have some measure of protection against unsolicited sex mail. Anyone who does not want such mail can notify postal authorities. Other kinds of restraint may be possible. Says University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang: "There ought to be a way to limit pornography to those who want it." Still, Wolfgang, a member of the obscenity and pornography commission, opposes all obscenity laws, including those limiting public display of erotica. Others think such laws are reasonable. Father Morton Hill, a New York City Jesuit and veteran porn fighter, wants newsstands and drugstores to stop carrying porn. "There should...
...grandson. A voice-over intones the message: "P.S., write soon." That bit of soft-sell-strongly reminiscent of A T & T's familiar telephone commercials-is now being test marketed in Atlanta, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Columbus. It is part of an experiment by the U.S. Postal Service to boost revenues by getting more people to use the mails. The unusual TV promotion is the latest effort by the embattled Postal Service to lift itself out of financial trouble that seems to grow more severe with each passing month...
...service, a quasi-independent corporation that replaced the old politically dominated Post Office Department in 1971, has had money problems ever since it was created. Today, the woes of the service have reached such alarming proportions that postal officials in Washington are privately discussing the possibility of an outright financial collapse in a year and a half. One of the bleakest assessments yet of the service's future is contained in a speech this week by Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar before the Economic Club of Detroit. Unless drastic changes are made in the way that Americans send...
...make ends meet, the service wants Congress to double its present $920 million annual public service appropriation. The Administration is opposed to such an increase contending that mail users should pay for rising costs. Some Congressmen who want to return to the old post-office system note that the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 insists that the service strive to be selfsupporting...
...Xerox machine has eased its way into the fabric of workaday America so subtly that only on occasion do people realize how important it has become. The U.S. Postal Service got away with raising postal rates at the end of the year after only a moderate amount of protest; but when the agency simultaneously shut down 2,400 coin-operated copiers in post offices (after complaints from private copy-service interests), public outrage was strong enough to have most of the machines restored. Much of the evidence that toppled Richard Nixon and his Watergate conspirators came from photocopied documents leaked...