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...greeted by his first big labor assignment: interviewing the late Walter Reuther. In Detroit, and later in our Houston and Washington bureaus, he reported on many major labor-management rifts, including a nationwide U.A.W. walkout against General Motors, three railroad strikes, a newspaper strike and last year's postal walkout...
Once a casual outline of a running chicken carved on a bottle cork could serve as a postmark. Then came names, and now, in the name of efficiency, postal authorities have begun to do away with place names. Under a system known as Area Mail Processing, mail is picked up and taken directly off to distribution centers where huge, highspeed letter sorters shuffle through thousands of pieces formerly handled by local post offices. Instead of postmarking a letter with the name of the town where it was mailed, the AMP machines simply stamp envelopes with the phrase "U.S. Postal Service...
...come, and many resonant place names are vanishing from American envelopes. Letters from Concord, Mass., for example, are trundled off to the AMP center in Framingham. Gone will be such postmarks as Shickshinny, Pa., and Truth or Consequences, N. Mex. If these pieces of Americana must disappear, however, the postal authorities might consider labeling letters with, say, "Somewhere in Oklahoma." That would at least cover the loss with an air of jaunty mystery...
...being heard more and more these days in labor negotiations. Inflation has eaten away at the dollar so relentlessly that workers are demanding retroactive cost of living increases just to keep even with rising prices. Last week high settlements in the telephone and copper industries and in the postal service continued the trend. And there is little doubt that the philosophy of catching up is playing a major role in the steel talks that are now under way to replace the industry's current labor contract, which will expire this Saturday...
...postal settlement-the first to be negotiated since the nation's postal system became an independent agency on July 1-gives 750,000 workers 20% in increases over the next two years. Cost to the postal service: $1 billion...