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...though it's questionable whether they've been heard. On a National Public Radio call-in program, a ticked-off citizen of Castine, Maine, (whose downtown P.O. was spared last year after cbs's This Morning took up its cause) chewed out Postmaster General Marvin Runyon: "Doesn't the Postal Service have some kind of obligation not to rip small communities apart?" Runyon, a former auto-company executive, responded with executive generalities concerning aging buildings and population growth, then effectively reversed himself. "It is not our business to be closing down small post offices," he said. "Our intention...
Livingston's heart is set to be transplanted, and the body politic is feeling the knife. Last November the U.S. Postal Service rode into town with an abrupt announcement: the post office was leaving the central site it had occupied for 80 years, preferably for a car-friendly location amid the strip malls and burger joints out of town. "They met with us on a Tuesday," says stunned city-council member Caron Cooper. "On Wednesday there was an ad in the paper soliciting bids for land." Dan Glick, a community activist, is peeved: "Those people gave us more...
Livingston is not alone. America's political catchphrase of the hour is "community building," yet the U.S. Postal Service seems to have lost the message in the mail. In cities and towns from Maine to Wyoming, the story is the same: remote, often arrogant Postal Service officials swooping down to summarily relocate what to many heartland residents is the secular equivalent of steepled white chapels. It's as if the feds raided Mayberry to cart away the barbershop...
...Mayor Terry Overmyer of Fremont, Ohio, who has been battling the Postal Service for two years in hopes of quieting the giant sucking sound of outlying megamalls and superstores. "They wanted to move our post office out by the Wal-Mart. We offered them whole city blocks downtown, but they just ignored...
...similar judgements when we consider freedom of speech on the Internet. Should the same liberal standard applied by 20th century American courts to oral and written speech be applied to the World Wide Web? should communications by e-mail be protected with the same veil of privacy as are postal letters? I think not. Just a cursory look at these new information technologies reveals that the concept of speech on the Internet is quite novel. E-mail outdoes the telephone; it not only reaches into someone's private life, but it can reach 700 such people at the same time...