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...States Post Office inaugurated one of the hardiest of American traditions by reporting to President Washington a deficit of $40. That's the way it was two hundred years ago, and that's the way it is today. Only the figures have changed: in the last five years, the Postal Service has lost some $1.8 billion, and it expects to lose that much more this year alone, despite last month's rate increase, which averaged 26% on all classes of mail...
...intended the U.S. government to deliver mail, He would have given it a subsidy. Instead, as a victim of Washington's inability to discern Divine intentions, the American taxpayer has to cough up nearly a billion dollars a year to keep the postal corporation afloat--still not enough to prevent it from accumulating a current debt of over $3 billion. In the last fifteen years, the price of mailing a first-class letter has risen over 400%. In the oil industry, that economic no-man's land where rapacious monopolists reign supreme, the price of a gallon of gas rose...
...power, Muldoon's National Party will probably try to dampen inflation and reduce the $970 million balance of payments deficit by imposing import restrictions and reducing or eliminating subsidies aimed at protecting consumers from rising transport, postal and electricity costs. Promising "a year of belt tightening," Muldoon could be in for rough times with organized labor...
...game is the invention of Amateur Mathematician Mordechai Meirovich, a postal employee in Israel, who first displayed it at the 1971 Nürnberg Toy Fair. There it was spotted by scouts from Invicta Plastics, a games manufacturer in Leicester. Invicta immediately recognized the potential of Meirovich's simple game and went to work producing, packaging and selling four different models...
...yearly-twice the U.S. rate-even though more than 7% of the work force is unemployed. Moreover, Canada has been plagued by more work stoppages than any major industrialized country except strike-happy Italy, and experts lately have worried that without controls the situation could grow worse. The postal workers, for example, last week threatened to shut down mail service for the seventh time in two years unless Canada Post gives in to their demand for a 71% pay and benefits hike. Large U.S. corporations with subsidiaries in Canada, such as American Can Co., have warned that new plants...