The job used to go to a different Cabinet officer -- the postmaster general.
Lyndon's Johnson's postmaster general was Larry O'Brien, who managed the 1960 and 1964 presidential campaigns.
Postmaster General John Potter said use of that particular type of cleaning machine has been discontinued.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said Wednesday no workers have reported becoming ill and called the risk minimal.
President Dwight Eisenhower's politico-in-chief was Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, ex-GOP national chairman and a legendary fund-raiser and organizer.
But patronage gave way to fund-raising, and the Cabinet position with political clout shifted from postmaster general to commerce secretary.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said Wednesday that the agency is talking with employees at plants in Maryland, Tennessee and Washington, D.
In 1912, then Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized local postmasters to allow postal employees and others to respond to the letters.
The Postmaster General has pointed to technology as a prime reason, to wit, email has replaced the mailing of letters and bills.
President Teddy Roosevelt established the tradition of rewarding the national party chairman of a successful presidential campaign with the job of postmaster general.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has called for five-day delivery and other cost-saving overhauls, but has so far failed to gain permission from Congress.
The U.S. Postal Service was founded in 1775 in the great city of Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin, who was the first Postmaster General.
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The most renowned postmaster general was James Farley, Franklin Roosevelt's chief political operative and former chairman of the New York state and national Democratic parties.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the Postal Service's hands are tied by congressional inaction on a bill that would allow it to reduce the payments.
According to Mike Makawa, Malawi's Postmaster General, Malawi needs about 300, 000 lines but MPTC can only provide 65, 000 lines and of these only 36, 000 lines are in use.
In fact, the Postal Service has had to adapt to changing times ever since Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general by the Continental Congress in 1775.
Following his retirement in 2001, former Postmaster General William J.
"Our financial condition is urgent, " declared Postmaster General Patrick R.
"The American public understands the financial challenges of the Postal Service and supports these steps as a responsible and reasonable approach to improving our financial situation, " Postmaster General Patrick R.
In response, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe plans to close 3, 700 post offices, many in small rural communities where the local post office is their logistical supply line to the larger world.
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Harry Truman continued the tradition by picking Democratic national chairman Robert Hannegan, who had played a key role in getting Truman named to the ticket in 1944, to be his postmaster general.
They and the postmaster general, and some members of Congress say one solution would be to ease an unusual requirement imposed by Congress in 2006 that the agency aggressively fund retiree benefits decades ahead.
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But Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the Postal Service would do whatever it takes to maintain its operations, even if that means defaulting on a second multibillion-dollar retiree obligation in as many months.
At a House hearing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe noted there had been ricin alerts since the notorious 2001 anthrax mailings and procedures are in place to protect postal employees and help track down culprits.
Donahoe, postmaster general and CEO, says Postal Service market research and other research has indicated that nearly 7 in 10 Americans support the switch to five-day delivery as a way for the Postal Service to reduce costs.
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He seems to have had a natural, genuine and lifelong sympathy for the disadvantaged, but was not always a doctrinaire socialist: as Harold Wilson's postmaster general the young Mr Benn was preoccupied mainly with trying (he failed) to remove the queen's head from postage stamps.
John Potter, the postmaster-general, said he could not guarantee that any American mail was safe.
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