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Officially, at least, that state of emergency is still in effect. So is the emergency that Harry Truman declared in 1950 during the Korean War and those that Richard Nixon called in 1970 be cause of a postal strike and in 1971 to handle an international monetary crisis...
...Education and Labor Committee would be split in two. A new Labor Committee would take over nontax aspects of unemployment compensation from Ways and Means and legislation dealing with civil service and postal workers. A new Education Committee would pick up responsibility for the elderly, the arts and humanities and a vast array of federal educational programs...
...economists would also: abolish laws that give the U.S. Postal Service a monopoly over delivery of first-class mail, freezing out potentially more efficient private competitors; gradually free airlines to experiment with lower fares for special classes of passengers; deregulate natural gas prices; move to eliminate antiquated Interstate Commerce Commission regulations that have fostered inflexible cartel-style rates and inflated truck and rail shipping charges by an esti mated...
...Italian Parliament hopes to ease the crisis by restoring overtime hours for postal workers, banned a year and a half ago as too costly to the postal system...
Italy has 180,000 postal workers, about the same number in proportion to population as the U.S. But too many are deskbound and inefficient. As Paris' Le Monde recently observed in an editorial, "Italy is the only country besides Tibet in which it is impossible to communicate through a postal service." Le Monde's slur was unfair-to Tibet, which can get an airmail letter to New York by yak, truck and plane a week faster than young Getty's ear reached Rome...