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...just don't accept that they [the postal system] are doing as well as they should be doing. We have to prod them, just like we are prodding New York City, to improve their efficiency productivity ... If we don't keep the pressure on them ... You know how things operate in Government ... That's one of the basic problems in New York City. No one really put the screws on them until this year, and now they are faced with reality. I think the post office department -management and labor-has to face up to that reality...
...comparison of the problems of the Postal Service and New York is yours. Let me demonstrate how apt the comparison is. We all can recognize that a major element in the New York problem has been the unwillingness of political management-in this case the city officials-to come to grips with escalating costs, costs that flow largely from the escalating demands of the municipal-workers unions...
What has been the situation in the operations of the Postal Service? Federal fiscal year 1971 was the last year under the "prereform" postal system, the long-existing system under which postal rates and postal expenditures were set by Congress. Fiscal year 1972 was a period of transition. In fiscal year 1973, the first year of full operation, the "reform" postal system generated a deficit of $13 million. In fiscal year 1974, the deficit had swollen to $438 million; in fiscal year 1975, which ended this summer, the deficit was $825 million; and in the current fiscal year, which will...
...responsible for these soaring red figures? A number of elements have contributed, of course: ques tionable management, an expensive capital-equipment program, outdated and perhaps unnecessary services. But there is one factor that stands out above all: salary and benefit escalation for the nation's approximately 700,000 postal workers. While I do not want to pass arbitrary judgment on the merits of the labor contracts negotiated in recent years by the Postal Service, here are some important figures...
Salaries and benefits now account for 85% of the postal budget. The basic wage of postal workers nationwide is presently $13,400 a year. To carry your analogy a little further, the average basic wage of New York policemen is $14,700; New York firemen, $14,700; New York teachers...