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...this week. Cameras behind the scenes of Manhattan's main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity in the mails of Switzerland and The Netherlands and such private U.S. businesses as United Parcel Service, explored the problems of whether and how the post office should pay its own way-instead of losing $2,000,000 a day. Murrow gave both sides of such...
...Voted, in the Appropriations Committee, to give Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield $133 million of the extra $149 million he insisted he needed (over and above the $3.2 billion originally budgeted) to run the Post Office...
Arthur E. Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General LL.D...
...Summerfield sounded this warning to a Senate Appropriations Committee, which then went into closed session and voted to restore 32 million dollars of the 58 million cut by the House from the Post Office Department's 1958 budget...
...Summerfield said a "phenomenal" increase in mail volume has made it necessary to seek more money to maintain full service...