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...Post Office, an organization older than the republic itself, went out of existence four years ago. Amid proud speeches and high hopes, the new U.S. Postal Service took its place. The Post Office's emblem, a galloping pony express rider from the 19th century, was replaced by a sleek 20th century eagle, and the Postal Service, a quasi-independent Government corporation, was expected to be equally up to date. Its assignment was not only to deliver the mail fast and efficiently but also to pay its own way within just a few years, phasing out a 200-year...
...much for good intentions. Instead of combining the efficiency of private enterprise and the Government's concern for the public good, as its designers had anticipated, the Postal Service is increasingly unsuccessful as a business and hurtful to the public welfare. The new eagle has no wings. Today postal delivery is no better than it was under the old Post Office, and in some cases it is worse. The Postal Service, which has a current budget of $12.6 billion, is now running a deficit of more than $820 million, over and above a federal subsidy of $1.5 billion. Unless...
...postal employee, I have naturally been concerned with delays in mail service. Imagine my horror when I delivered your issue dated July...
Initially, the CIA led postal officials to believe that the projects would involve only examination of the outside of the envelopes ("mail cover" in CIA parlance), which is legal. But apparently unknown to Postmaster General Arthur Summer field, his successors and most other top postal officials, the CIA used its mail cover to open many of the letters, which is illegal unless authorized by a search warrant. In the last full year of the New York operation, for example, eight CIA employees examined the envelopes of more than 2.3 million items of mail between the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...give rise to grave charges of criminal misuse of the mail by Government agencies." Similarly the commission learned that during one of the San Francisco operations, CIA representatives abstracted and "concealed selected pieces of mail in an equipment case or a handbag," apparently without the knowledge of a postal official who was present. Later CIA officials analyzed the contents of the purloined letters, resealed the envelopes and surreptitiously returned them to the post office...