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...country's citizens, at least to a degree, from the economic turmoil around them. And because many accounts are still government guaranteed, the Japanese just keep socking it away, no matter how bad the economic news gets. The government, meanwhile, directly controls 20% of that money through its postal savings system, which it has treated as an always-replenishing piggy bank to fund its huge public-spending projects. And thus the giant, unproductive cycle of money and labor churns on. "After all this time, Japan still has the resources to muddle through," says Kiichi Murashima of Nikko Salomon Smith Barney...
...essays that have appeared in various magazines since 1994. Franzen is not the first serious writer to mourn the slow death of serious reading or to be worried about the decay of the moral imagination, each a continuing subtheme in a book that lights upon everything from the Chicago postal system to his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. But his estrangement is so persuasive that he makes alienation seem like the first sign of a healthy mind. Is it possible to be brilliantly put upon? That's what Franzen...
This August, just when I began to think the U.S. Postal Service had stopped menacing Americans—no one had received anthrax-laced mail in months, and I hadn’t had to worry about college rejection letters for more than a year—our mailwoman deposited an envelope in our mailbox that shattered my complacency...
What's driving the shift? Over the past year, electronic payment got a boost when the anthrax attacks elevated fear of using the mail, says Bill Nelson of the Electronic Payments Association. The hike in postal rates also hurt snail mail...
WILENSKY: The postal workers are going to now be offering something that Medtronic has been offering for a while, in which the employer puts in a block of money, there's a block of money which the individual is responsible for--essentially a deductible--and then above that cap regular insurance kicks...