| Show A PUBLIC SERVICE NOT A BUSINESS the economy move of the postoffice Post office department largely cased cupl upon on reduced delivery of mail created something of a stir tir throughout the country with labor leaders and con attacking the order vigorously for obvious reasons the details of the reduced schedule of deliveries does not suggest any undue hardship upon recipients of mail anfor the order will seriously affect a number of postal aloyes pl oyes justification for tile the retrenchment is found by tile postmaster general in the action of a house committee which caved shaved haved off the budget of postmaster general jesse M donaldson explains the action acion as essential to curtail a mounting deficit and asserts that it comes after constant pressure from many sources for reductions duct ions in tile the cost of the postal service in order to bring relief to the taxpayers who are called upon to make up from flom general taxation the difference between revenues and ili expenses the fallacy in ill mr air donaldsons Donald sons position is that lie ho apparently considers the postoffice post office a business enterprise to be guided by the rules which govern those operated for profit the po postal sital service as operated by the united states gove government ml is not a business but represents a distinct service to the he public it should not necessarily be a profit making operation tra era tion nobody in ill a city for example expects a fire department or a police department to make money but just the game fame nobody suggests that either public service should be eliminated by municipalities the possibility is that tile the retrenchment goes too far rather than not far enough there was a time in some of our larger arger cities when postal deliveries were much more frequent than today the Il number Limber of deliveries was reduced gen brally not only for reasons of economy but bilt because they g vere gere ere unnecessary in ili connection with the present order one lehigh high official of the department says saya that eighty per cent of if the mail business and residential is distributed distribute on the first delivery livery le of the morning |
