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Book Synopsis The Coming Collapse of the Post Office by : Robert John Myers
Download or read book The Coming Collapse of the Post Office written by Robert John Myers and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How the Post Office Created America by : Winifred Gallagher
Download or read book How the Post Office Created America written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.
Book Synopsis The Postal Crisis by : Donald R. Ewing
Download or read book The Postal Crisis written by Donald R. Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Financial Death Spiral of the United States Postal Service ...Unless? by : Grady E Griffin
Download or read book The Financial Death Spiral of the United States Postal Service ...Unless? written by Grady E Griffin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grady E. Griffin knows all too well that the United States Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse. It continues to lose billions of dollars per year, and it has reached its maximum federal borrowing limit of $15 billion. Meanwhile, total liabilities are approaching $100 billion. Griffin, who worked for the Postal Service in numerous roles, proposes common-sense solutions to the Postal Service's most pressing problems. These solutions and other fixes are popular among working-level employees, but many managers, union officials, labor specialists, contract compliance officials, advocates for grievances, and arbitrators who make a living off interpreting complicated contracts continue to oppose them for selfish reasons. Tens of thousands of jobs are at stake, and a valuable service that the public relies on could be eliminated forever unless stakeholders overhaul the Postal Service.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Federal Services Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :84 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (17 download)
Book Synopsis Extension of the Phasing of Postal Rates by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Federal Services
Download or read book Extension of the Phasing of Postal Rates written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Federal Services and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Service Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (327 download)
Book Synopsis Abolish the Postal Rate Commission and Index Postal Rate Increases with the Consumer Price Index by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Service
Download or read book Abolish the Postal Rate Commission and Index Postal Rate Increases with the Consumer Price Index written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Service and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Federal Services Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1056 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Postal Service Amendments of 1978 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Federal Services
Download or read book Postal Service Amendments of 1978 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Federal Services and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Neither Snow Nor Rain by : Devin Leonard
Download or read book Neither Snow Nor Rain written by Devin Leonard and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.” —USA Today Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, and yet, it is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing. In Neither Snow Nor Rain, journalist Devin Leonard tackles the fascinating, centuries-long history of the USPS, from the first letter carriers through Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness. Under Andrew Jackson, the post office was molded into a vast patronage machine, and by the 1870s, over seventy percent of federal employees were postal workers. As the country boomed, USPS aggressively developed new technology, from mobile post offices on railroads and airmail service to mechanical sorting machines and optical character readers. Neither Snow Nor Rain is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system—and the country—to a halt in the 1970s. “Delectably readable . . . Leonard’s account offers surprises on almost every other page . . . [and] delivers both the triumphs and travails with clarity, wit and heart.” —Chicago Tribune
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :3102 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (46 download)
Book Synopsis Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government
Download or read book Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 3102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Commission on Postal Service by : United States. Commission on Postal Service
Download or read book Report of the Commission on Postal Service written by United States. Commission on Postal Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Government Processes Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1400 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Erroneous Declassification of Nuclear Weapons Information by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Government Processes
Download or read book Erroneous Declassification of Nuclear Weapons Information written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Government Processes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Postal Age written by David M. Henkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age, a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the nineteenth century, laying the foundation for the interconnectedness that now defines our ever-evolving world of telecommunications. This fascinating history traces these shifts from their beginnings in the mid-1800s, when cheaper postage, mass literacy, and migration combined to make the long-established postal service a more integral and viable part of everyday life. With such dramatic events as the Civil War and the gold rush underscoring the importance and necessity of the post, a surprisingly broad range of Americans—male and female, black and white, native-born and immigrant—joined this postal network, regularly interacting with distant locales before the existence of telephones or even the widespread use of telegraphy. Drawing on original letters and diaries from the period, as well as public discussions of the expanding postal system, Henkin tells the story of how these Americans adjusted to a new world of long-distance correspondence, crowded post offices, junk mail, valentines, and dead letters. The Postal Age paints a vibrant picture of a society where possibilities proliferated for the kinds of personal and impersonal communications that we often associate with more recent historical periods. In doing so, it significantly increases our understanding of both antebellum America and our own chapter in the history of communications.
Book Synopsis Confronting Collapse by : Michael C. Ruppert
Download or read book Confronting Collapse written by Michael C. Ruppert and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the movie Collapse. The world is running short of energy-especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life. In Confronting Collapse, author Michael C. Ruppert, a former LAPD narcotics officer turned investigative journalist, details the intricate connections between money and energy, including the ways in which oil shortages and price spikes triggered the economic crash that began in September 2008. Given the 96 percent correlation between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions and the unlikelihood of economic growth without a spike in energy use, Ruppert argues that we are not, in fact, on the verge of economic recovery, but on the verge of complete collapse. Ruppert's truth is not merely inconvenient. It is utterly devastating. But there is still hope. Ruppert outlines a 25-point plan of action, including the creation of a second strategic petroleum reserve for the use of state and local governments, the immediate implementation of a national Feed-in Tariff mandating that electric utilities pay 3 percent above market rates for all surplus electricity generated from renewable sources, a thorough assessment of soil conditions nationwide, and an emergency action plan for soil restoration and sustainable agriculture.
Book Synopsis The Financial Death Spiral of the United States Postal Service ...Unless? by : Grady E Griffin
Download or read book The Financial Death Spiral of the United States Postal Service ...Unless? written by Grady E Griffin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grady E. Griffin knows all too well that the United States Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse. It continues to lose billions of dollars per year, and it has reached its maximum federal borrowing limit of $15 billion. Meanwhile, total liabilities are approaching $100 billion. Griffin, who worked for the Postal Service in numerous roles, proposes common-sense solutions to the Postal Service's most pressing problems. These solutions and other fixes are popular among working-level employees, but many managers, union officials, labor specialists, contract compliance officials, advocates for grievances, and arbitrators who make a living off interpreting complicated contracts continue to oppose them for selfish reasons. Tens of thousands of jobs are at stake, and a valuable service that the public relies on could be eliminated forever unless stakeholders overhaul the Postal Service.
Author :Robert A. Hall Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781461122531 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (225 download)
Book Synopsis The Coming Collapse of the American Republic by : Robert A. Hall
Download or read book The Coming Collapse of the American Republic written by Robert A. Hall and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... four threats which are combining to destroy the future for our grandchildren: 1. The incomprehensible debt and unfunded financial liabilities of all levels of government; 2. The threat of uncontrolled, illegal immigration to our economy and culture; 3. The asymmetric war imposed on us by Islamic Jihadists; and, 4. The rise of China as a competitive military and economic power determined to dominate Asia. Taken together, these desperate trends put the survival of America as a united, free and prosperous country in great jeopardy"--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis The United States Postal Service by : United States Postal Service Staff
Download or read book The United States Postal Service written by United States Postal Service Staff and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Stamp by : Laura Goldblatt
Download or read book The American Stamp written by Laura Goldblatt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country’s history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp collecting a widespread hobby and made stamps into consumer goods in their own right. Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. They argue that postage stamps, which are both devices to pay for a government service and purchasable items themselves, embody a crucial tension: is democracy defined by political agency or the freedom to buy? The changing images and uses of stamps reveal how governmental authorities have attempted to navigate between public service and businesslike efficiency, belonging and exclusion, citizenship and consumerism. Stamps are vehicles for state messaging, and what they depict is tied up with broader questions of what it means to be American. Goldblatt and Handler combine historical, sociological, and iconographic analysis of a vast quantity of stamps with anthropological exploration of how postal customers and stamp collectors behave. At the crossroads of several disciplines, this book casts the symbolic and material meanings of stamps in a wholly new light.