Postal Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2844 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 |
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Page 23 - Messenger of Sympathy and Love Servant of Parted Friends Consoler of the Lonely Bond of the Scattered Family Enlarger of the Common Life Carrier of News and Knowledge Instrument of Trade and Industry Promoter of Mutual Acquaintance Of Peace and Good Will Among Men and Nations.
Page 313 - Service reasonably assignable to such class or type; 322 (4) the effect of rate increases upon the general public, business mail users, and enterprises in the private sector of the economy engaged in the delivery of mail matter other than letters...
Page 134 - Government, as stated in section 101(b) of this title, that the Postal Service shall provide a maximum degree of effective and regular postal services to rural areas, communities, and small towns where post offices are not self-sustaining...
Page 296 - United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Mr. Chairman: On behalf of the National Association of Home Builders, we should like to submit this letter for the record of the hearings on S.
Page 263 - The Postal Service shall provide a maximum degree of effective and regular postal services to rural areas, communities, and small towns where post offices are not self-sustaining. No small post office shall be closed solely for operating at a deficit, it being the specific intent of the Congress that effective postal services be insured to residents of both urban and rural communities.
Page 334 - ... (5) the available alternative means of sending and receiving letters and other mail matter at reasonable costs; (6) the degree of preparation of mail for delivery into the postal system performed by the mailer and its effect upon reducing costs to the Postal Service; (7) simplicity of structure for the entire schedule and simple, identifiable relationships between the rates or fees charged the various classes of mail for postal services; (8) the educational, cultural, scientific, and informational...
Page 254 - ... (4) the envelope is so sealed that the letter cannot be taken from it without defacing the envelope; (5) any stamps on the envelope are canceled in ink by the sender; and (6) the date of the letter, of its transmission or receipt by the carrier is endorsed on the envelope in ink.
Page 312 - ... the value of the mail service actually provided each class or type of mail service to both the sender and the recipient...
Page 312 - ... the requirement that each class of mail or type of mail service bear the direct and indirect postal costs attributable to that class or type plus that portion of all other costs of the Postal Service reasonably assignable to such class or type...
Page 136 - I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S.