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POSTAL service, UNITED States Postal Service, FREE enterprise, SOCIALISTS, and UNITED States

Ponders on the question of whether the U.S. Post Office would advocate the private delivery of the mail. Call by defenders of free enterprises on socialists to try out the private delivery of mail; Controversies surrounding the Post Office as of April 1957.

GOVERNMENT programs, TAX laws, POSTAL rates, EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969, PRESIDENTS of the United States, and UNITED States

Criticizes the government programs developed by the administration of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957. Comments on legislation implemented by the administration; Response to the excise corporation tax bill proposed by the President; Assessment of the status of postal rates bill created by Eisenhower.

WORLD politics -- 1955-1965, INTERNATIONAL relations, POSTAL rates, POLITICAL parties, POLITICAL campaigns, SOVIET Union, and UNITED States

Presents an update on world politics as of February 15, 1958. Role of the Soviet Union in the merger of Syria with Egypt; Possibility of an increase in first-class mail rates; Concerns raised by Democratic Party tacticians in the U.S. regarding their decision to make Republican failures in defense the issue for the autumn election campaign.

SUMMERFIELD, Arthur E., MANUFACTURING industries, POSTMASTERS general, POSTMASTERS, LABOR unions, CONSERVATISM, and UNITED States

Commends Arthur E. Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General, for his accurate views on the state of U.S. manufacturing industry in an address to the National Association of Manufacturers on December 5, 1958. Highlights of his speech; Political activity of labor unions; Threat to intelligent conservatism in the country.

REPUBLICS, POWER (Social sciences), UNITED States -- Politics government, PITNEY Bowes Inc., SLOGANS, UNITED States Postal Service, and UNITED States

Focuses on the concept of republic in context to the United States and issues concerning slogans related to it in postal imprints. Definition of a republic government; Degradation of the original concept of a republic; View that a great many officials of the central government, wielding vast powers over the people, seemed hardly responsible to the people at all; Controversies surrounding a slogan by Pitney Bowes Inc.; Report that the Post Office Department asked Pitney Bowes to arrange for discontinuance of the slogan; Statement that the United States is indeed a republic, but going by the records, one wonders how long it will keep it that way.

BUDGET, FINANCE, KENNEDY, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963, PRESIDENTS of the United States, POSTAL rates, REVENUE, and UNITED States

The article reports on the budget proposal of U.S. President John F. Kennedy which reaches to $100 billion dollars. He assumes revenues of about $93 billion and predicts an expense of $92.5 billion and an estimated surplus of about half a billion. Such surplus still depends on some doubtful assumptions and while the overall trend of the nation's finance is fatal. The President perhaps assumes that the budget receipts will increase by nearly $11 billion or that postal rates will be increased.

UNITED States -- Politics government -- 1961-1963, UNIVERSITIES colleges, POSTAL rates, COMMUNISM, MCCLENDON, Sarah, ADVANCE (Periodical), LEGISLATIVE bills, LEGISLATIVE amendments, and UNITED States

Presents information on various socio-political developments in the U.S. Information on the Cunningham Amendment to the postal rate increase bill which bans the use of U.S. mails for the transmission of Communist propaganda coming into the U.S. from Communist bloc nations; Comment on attitude of political leader Sarah McClendon towards other politicians; Reaction of U.S. House and Senate Republicans over an attack in the Harvard University-based publication Advance.

MAILING lists (Lists of addresses), NAMES, PERIODICALS, MAILINGS, POSTAL rates, LISTS, PERIODICAL circulation, and READERSHIP

Highlights the postage wastage brought on by the journal in asking its readers for subscription repeatedly. Number of names on the spring mailing list of the journal; Difficulties in checking duplications in the mailing lists; Apology rendered by the journal for the inconvenience caused to its readers.

WITNESSES, LEGAL evidence, UNITED States Postal Service, EAVESDROPPING, and UNITED States

This article examines revelations made by several witnesses ranging from Roy Cohn to the Washington director of the American Civil Liberties Union regarding anomalies in the U.S. Postal Service. Revelations include increased use of secret listening devices, bugging of telephones, peepholes in Post Office washrooms and the burgeoning use of mail covers by the postal authorities.

UNITED States economy -- 1961-1971, BUSINESS enterprises, TEXTILE industry, PHASED retirement, INDUSTRIAL laws legislation, and UNITED States Postal Service

The article offers news briefs related to business in the U.S. Textile industries have been expanding and improving its facilities, production and trade due to the growing demand for automobile carpeting, and enthusiastic market reception for the new fabrics. The Post Office Department has started to phase out thousands of employees and will continue to process retirement applications before the end of 1965.

BUSINESS, POSTAL service, UNEMPLOYMENT insurance, EMPLOYMENT, and UNITED States

The article presents news briefs related to business in the U.S. Mail delivery around the country is growing that some are being forced to make ends-run around the congestion. Unemployment compensation funds in the states are also growing due to the high rate of employment.

POSTAL service, LETTER mail handling, MAIL sorting, PERIODICALS, POSTAL codes -- United States, POSTAL rates, and UNITED States

Offers observation on the problem of postage in the U.S. Ignorance of the author towards the postal system in the country; Discussion of the mailing system of the periodical; View of the author that it costs about twice as much to get a letter into the mail than it did when the author first came the country ten years ago; Importance of ZIP codes while mailing letters.

DEFICIT financing, POSTAL service, REFORMS, GOVERNMENT corporations, and UNITED States

The article reports on the monetary deficits and post office reform in the United States. The payments deficit continues though several tricks such as money borrowing and threat issuing have been made. Postmaster General O'Brien has proposed to reform the U.S. Post Office. The reform includes the office to be part of the Cabinet, become a nonprofit government corporation, be operated by the appointed board of directors and be managed by professional executives.

UNITED States Postal Service, PUBLIC administration, KAPPEL, Frederick, POSTMASTERS general, and UNITED States

The article examines the problem faced by the United States Post Office. The Postmaster General has testified that the Post Office has become a place of restrictive legislation and custom, he suggests that the whole system be depoliticalized, that a government corporation take it over, and that it be run by executives who actually mean business. The President has appointed a committee to study the options available. The chairman of the committee is Frederick Kappel.

JUSTICE administration, POSTAL service, JUDGES, SUPERSTITION, WITNESSES, CORRUPTION, CRIME, URUGUAY, and SOUTH America

Highlights the shortcomings of the legal and postal systems in South America. Information on how false witnesses can be easily hired in the court houses of South America; Principles on which their legal system is based; Number of witnesses that constitute valid proof; Example of corruption among judges in the region; Importance of understanding popular superstitions in some areas; Instances of stamp stealing among postal clerks; Reason why 11 postal officials were arrested in Uruguay; Explanations given by some letter carriers for their misdemeanor.

PUBLIC contracts, PUBLIC officers, STRIKES lockouts -- Postal service -- United States, LABOR unions, SHRIVER, Sargent, 1915-2011, AMBASSADORS, and UNITED States

Focuses on several socio-political issues in the U.S. Information that 45 per cent of the federal government's workers are now covered by "exclusive recognition" agreements between the government and a variety of unions; Representation of 187,000 white-collar and 140,000 blue-collar men by the American Federation of Government Employees; Challenge faced by union leaders, especially in the big postal unions, for the right to strike; Possibility that Sargent Shriver will be the next Ambassador to France.

WORLD politics -- 1965-1975, GOVERNMENTAL investigations, UNITED States Postal Service, GAULLE, Charles de, 1890-1970, HEADS of state, WALLACE, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998, PRESIDENTIAL elections, ACCIDENTS, DEATH rate, UNITED States, and FRANCE

Focuses on political developments around the world. Submission of report of study on the Post Office by a Presidential commission; Opinion that power of French politician Charles de Gaulle has been declining in the country; Measures considered by France in reaction to outflow of liquid capital; Press conference held by U.S. politician George Wallace to confirm his candidacy for presidential election; Statistics related to accidental death in the U.S.; Plan of the U.S. government to design a system of priority airlift for troops to areas of civil disorder.

POLICE brutality, COMPLAINTS against police, ABERNATHY, Ralph, 1926-1990, UNIVERSITIES colleges, CRIMINAL justice personnel, POSTAL service, CIVIL service, and UNITED States

Presents information regarding law and order situation in the U.S. Allegation of police brutality by social reformer Ralph Abernathy who was helping some striking hospital workers; Problems related to post offices in San Francisco area of California; Explosion of a homemade bomb in the courtyard of the Faculty Club at the University of California at Santa Barbara, killing maintenance man.

POSTAL Strike, U.S., 1970, STRIKES lockouts -- Postal service -- United States, POSTAL service, CARRIERS, and UNITED States

Presents views on the U.S. postal strike of 1970. Cost of the mail strike; Implication of the strike for the U.S. society; Cause of the devastating effects of the strike.

POSTAL Strike, U.S., 1970, STRIKES lockouts -- Postal service -- United States, PUBLIC opinion, LABOR disputes, and UNITED States

Comments on a postal strike in the U.S. in 1970. Reasons for the staging of the postal strike; Position of the public on the strike; Recommendations for the government for addressing the issue.