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...weeks ago we published in this space a letter about the postal crisis from Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell to President Ford. The President has replied to Mr. Heiskell's letter and we are pleased to carry his response...
...into. Chased on foot by police after robbing a Chicago cab driver, he fell through the basement window of a house. In a dry-cleaner burglary in East Alton, he was surprised re-entering the place for more loot by cops who had noticed the window ajar. After stealing postal money orders in Illinois with a friend, he left a trail of poorly forged cashed orders and was caught. During two grocery-store stickups in St. Louis, he and accomplices scooped up about $2,000 from cash registers and passed up some $30,000 in locked safes. Arrested after...
...national basis, the average police salary is $11,800; firemen, $11,200; teachers, $11,600. Consider also that assistant professors of four-year colleges earn a national average of $12,600, while postal workers earn an average of $13,400. As you surmised, only New York, the case you have cited as an example of disastrous municipal mismanagement, can be said to have kept pace with the Postal Service in this regard...
...this is not the end of the story. With the pay hikes granted in this year's postal-wage settlement, the average pay of postal workers will probably rise to around $16,500 by 1978, an additional increase of more than 23% over present levels. That will cost the Postal Service an additional $2 billion in wages alone...
...time to switch from conservative generalities to a more specific blueprint for drastically reducing Big Government. And so, after three weeks of slapdash staff work, he proposed on Sept. 26 "a single bold stroke" that would abolish the federal role in welfare, education, Medicaid, air-traffic control, postal subsidies and some other services...