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...mounting problems of the U.S. Postal Service have been brought home to all Americans in the past two weeks with the introduction of the 13? stamp and other increased rates. Next week Congress will return to work and will certainly have to deal with the very serious financial crisis that has been building up at the U.S. Postal Service. As a publishing company that uses the mails extensively, Time Inc. is also gravely concerned with this essential national service. With that concern in mind, Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell sent a letter to President Ford on Dec. 12, pointing...
Recently, you and members of your staff held a meeting at the White House with magazine publishers, in which you indicated that you will continue to oppose both additional federal appropriations to defray the increasing costs of public services provided by the U.S. Postal Service, and funds for phasing increases in second-class mail rates, as authorized by Congress...
...aware, you and your associates have repeatedly described appropriations for public service by the Postal Service as "subsidies" to the various users, whether such users happen to require these services or not. You, yourself, have also compared the deficit problems of the Postal Service with the deficit problems of the City of New York. I quote from your statement...
...that private companies will refuse to deliber to remote rural areas, due to excessive cost. In this case, as in any other, private companies will provide service if the patrons are willing to pay for it, though it will probably cost them more. Private firms--unlike the present Postal Service--will not be able to force urban dwellers to subsidize mail delivery to rural areas. But even if no private companies could be persuaded to make such deliveries, it would be cheaper to subsidize continued USPS delivery to such places than to continue the present system of postal service...
...problem with the U.S. Postal Service is the problem with all bureaucratic operations: it operates under Murphy's Law, which says that if anything can go wrong, it will. All evidence suggests that private enterprise could deliver the mail cheaper and more efficiently than the government can, but the issue will not be resolved until Congress decides to permit free competition in postal service. The postal patron has a great deal to gain from such an experiment, and nothing to lose but his thirteen-cent stamp...