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Show ('Poor Man's Letter' Costs Post Office, Survey Discloses WASHINGTON. The penny post card, or "poor man's letter." costs the Post Office 2 cents for paste-1 board, printing and delivery. The Hoover Commission believes It would still be a big bargain at two cents. That. It was disclosed is only one of the many recommendations the commission will make to Congress on the Post Office Department, which Is one of the world's largest businesses and one of its greatest money losers. The commission, headed by ex-President ex-President H e r b e rt Hoover, is charged by Congress with recommending recom-mending ways and means of streamlining and makng more efficient effi-cient the executive branch of governmentthe gov-ernmentthe branch directly responsible re-sponsible to the White House. The Post Office study is but one of 23 major researches undertaken by the commission's "task forces." Members say it Is one of the most challenging because it is so big and because it operates in the red. It Is also one of the projects for which recommendations are about complete. The "task force" report on the Post office Department was prepared pre-pared by the management engineering en-gineering firm of Robert Heller & Associates, Inc., of Cleveland. It emphasizes greater efficiency and economy of money and effort in . the department, without sacrificing sacri-ficing any personnel. These goals would be accomplished by increased in-creased postal rates, greater mechanization me-chanization In handling of mall in the big city offices, changes in operating structure and setting up the department as a revolving-fund revolving-fund agency. |