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...only be "painful and difficult" because of the "restrictive jungle of legislation and custom that has grown up around the Post Office Department." If the telephone system were run as the mails are, he said, "the carrier pigeon business would still have a great future." In view of the postal service's snowballing problems (TIME, Dec. 30), the idea of a quasiindependent agency similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority offers some compelling advantages...
Congress has long relied on the postal service as a tub of sweet-and-pungent pork. Instead of using the patronage system, which has hurt morale and impeded efficiency, the corporation could promote on merit. Another major problem has been the Post Office's archaic technical facilities; with construction programs pressured on one side by budget vagaries and on the other by congressional logrolling, it has tended to be more interested in concrete than com puters-though even its buildings are inadequate. The agency envisioned...
...other regulations, sometimes with devastating results. The 89th Congress adopted a rule governing employees' work schedules that had the unintended effect of adding 45,000 men. Under O'Brien's scheme, Congress would do no more than establish broad guidelines to determine how much of the postal service should be financed by general appropriations and how much by users' fees. After that, the corporation would...
Testing the Wind. The changeover would not be easy. One obvious problem would be the status of nearly 700,000 employees now under the civil service system. Another prickly question would be whether, under a corporate system, postal strikes could be outlawed, as they are today...
...determination, labor leaders last week knuckled under and called off a planned series of strikes. With labor brought to heel, at least temporarily, Onganía's government pressed ahead with its austerity program. Though keeping a tight lid on wages, the government announced a 100% hike in postal and telegraph rates, a 23% increase in water and gas rates and a stiff new tax reform that raises many taxes, adds some new ones and provides penalties of up to 500% for tardy payers. To add insult to injury, Onganía showed that...