BUSINESS Eafs Council Wants Breakdancing Is Feds Probe Regular Medic Classes Newest Fad Here Car Safety Competition Couid Awaken the Post Office
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80 - MANCHESTER HERALD, Thursday, March 8, 1984 BUSINESS EAfS council wants Breakdancing Is Feds probe regular medic classes newest fad here car safety Competition couid awaken the post office ... page 3 ... page 11 ... page 4 In 1983, the non-prolit Postal Service posted a achieved, first-class mail d e liv e ^ would be opened to includes longer distances. Although the standard for surplus of $616 million on lop of a 1982 surplus ol $802 competition. Obviously, a solution ol this sort would both is 95 percent, second-day delivery performance million — two years of surpluses in a row. And yet be tough to enact — but il il just puls the Postal Service was 88 percent in 1983 and third-day was 89 percent. there is a real possibility that you and 1 could be Your on notice that we won't accept endless delays and (The latter represents a 1 percent drop since 1982.) paying a new record high of 23 cents lor a first-class guessing games about which day ol the week a Volume, though, rose to 119.4 billion pieces, up 4.7 stamp by October to cover the costs ol our dismal, Money's promised letter will arrive, it will have made an percent over 1982. Manchester, Conn. Meanwhile, the Postal Service is pushing its Clear tonight; discourteous, declining service. Worth important contribution. Friday, March 9, 1984 Before 1 write another word, 1 admit that The congressional committee that oversees the much-heralded Z IP plus 4, also known as the 9-digit cold Saturday Manhattan, where I live, is an area unto itself. In fact, Sylvia Porter Postal Service has no plans now to introduce ZIP code. The PostalService doesn't dare claim we'll Single copy: 259 one congressional source told me that Postal Service legislation to improve mail service and, according to receive our mail faster, but Z IP plus 4 is supposed to — See page 2 olficials themselves talk about New York City and one stalfer. legislating standards will be both difficult speed up the sorting process, eliminate errors and fEanrljfatrr Utmlh about the rest ol the United States as though they are and controversial. reduce costs. utterly unrelated. Nationally, the Postal Service has met its goal of 95 This is so much fantasy to me. I just want my mail in It you live in a small town in the Midwest, you may percent delivery ol first-class mail twith stamps reasonable time. I love my mail carriers, who love me grumble it your mail is delayed a day or so. In New necks at several key mail transit points, such as attached) on the next business day within a local or back when they see my eyes as I finally find a York weexpect mail to be delivered days, weeks, even Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth, and the bottlenecks metropolitan area since 1979. (1 find this as hard to long-sought letter. If competition would help, come months after being posted. I have the envelopes to choked off the How of mail. believe as swallowing a postal meter — but that’s on! prove the almost incredible intervals between • Holiday mail reached a new all-time high, what the claim is. I can't always be in that leftover mailing and delivery. In my town, millions ol pieces contributing to the record snalus. The total: nearly 10 minority.) For 1983, it was 96 percent. Here in New Income tax guide available Unemployment drill through the mail, lending ever-increasing billion pieces, an increase ol 800 million over 1982 s York.'the percentage dropped below 90 percent in '83. % credibility to the oldest excuse in the book: "The season. That standard is based on first-class mail received "Sylvia Porter’s 1984 Income Tax Book," her 1 check is in the mail." The situation has become so grim in New York that at the post office lor distribution by the mail carrier comprehensive guide to income taxes, is now You must recall what happened at Christmas. (I Rep, pill Green. R-N Y., istryingto meet the regular and that had been postmarked before 5 p.m. on the available through her column. Send $4.95 plus $1 fqr received a card last week that was sent the week and loud complaints of his constituents by devising a previous day. mailing and handling to "Sylvia Porter's 1984 Income - Metered mail, which has a ditlereni time frame, Tax Book." in care ol the Manchester Herald, 4400 . at lowest point before the holiday!) The Postal Service itself says new way to deal with the problem. that mail delivery was t he worst in years — although it One possibility now under discussion: to make the fared much worse. So did two-day and three-day mail Johnson Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. Allow four to six " has explanations to justify the unjustifiable: Postal Service's own published performance stand delivery. Second-day mail is that delivered within a weeks for delivery. Make checks payable to Universal - • Catastrophic weather c-onditions caused bottle- ards mandatory. Then, il the standards were not 600-mile radius Irom where il was posted, third-day Press Syndicate. since faii 1981 Banned 48 years Oil anckgas glut % ol respondents By Drew Von Bergen percent. United Press International Employment in the nation rose i Programming/software development 65 \ by 700,000 in February to a record Computer appplications (medical. makes for deals Trading in options 1 WASHINGTON — Unemploy- *®3.9 million, the department said, industrial, etc.) 34 j ment in the United States fell to 7.8 and has increased by 4.9 million %'r Systems development 29 1 percent in February, the lowest during the recovery, the largest 1 Computer graphics 1 on likely tracts point in nearly 2*A-years, with a gain in the first IS months of any 28 record numter of Americans hold- posl-W orld W ar II recovery back to the farm 1 Teaching computer sciences 26 1 HOUSTON (U P I) — With the oil and gas business in- ing jobs, the Labor Department period. 1 Electronic communications 24 1 said today. Labor Statistics Commissioner Layton to explain how options work. a slump, two industry veterans believe now is the timeT Bv Pamel J. Huev i Research and development Workers in almost every cate- Janet Norwood, in testimony pre- Consider an option that gives the to snap up good deals on geologically promising., United Press International gory shared in the gains and there pared for a congressional hearing, right to purchase 100 acres of farm (hardware) 1 tracts. t 23 was a sharp drop in the number of called the situation "an unusually land. A neighbor offers you the right to 1 1 Artificial intelligence 1 Karl Schneidau, 62, a geologist, and Robert A.' Sometime this year the commodities 22 long-term unemployed. strong labor market recovery. buy the 100 acres at $1,000 an acre at Shepard Jr., 60, a lawyer — each with 30-plus years in' markets will offer farmers, exporters The Reagan administration reflected in large employment any time between now and July 1. For the business — say the oil and gas glut has made and processors a marketing tool used a quickly took credit for the continu- gains and a steady decline in the century ago and banned by Congress in this right, you pay the neighbor a sum people with money too cautious about investing in ing drop in joblessness from the unemployrnent rale.” 1936. of $2,500. drilling projects. ” recession peak of 10.7 percent in 8^® noted that a separate survey The tool is called options trading, “ There are geologists out there — and I ’ve gotten At any time prior to the expiration December 1982. businesses also showed a jump this from people I respect in the industry — with as similar to what is already used in the date, you can — but are not obligated to Deputy White House press secre- 400,(M)0 during the month in many as 15 different concepts sitting in complete stocks and bonds market. Options — buy the property at the option price. tary Larry Speakes said the new payroll jobs, and said the highlight trading in agricultural commodities frustration because they cannm put a drilling deaf That is you can exercise the option! If together," Shepard said. ' figures demonstrate “ the underly- il}® labor force developments was banned because it was abused and you decide not to exercise the option, ing faith in the economy" and continues to be the rapid rate of job people tried to corner the market, "We have a pool of capital. We want geologists to you can simply allow it to expire. Or noted the rale is below previous growth." oldtimers say. bring their ideas to us. We'll put. it together. We'll you may be able to sell your option administration projections. "The unusually large household This time, a two-year pilot program furnish the seed money to review the leases, do the rights to someone else. “ The recovery continues to build survey gains were shared by both will be tried and industry spokesmen seismic, the whole thing. And we’ll go out and drill.” In any event, the neighbor who sold a strong foundation of business and adult men and women and by both expect that with increased regulation it Shepard and Schneidau founded Schneidau, She you the option retains the $2,500 investment,” he added. whites and blacks,' she said, (end will be successful. pard Ltd. last June. They just signed their first deal premium.