About the Chicago Post Office

[Paul Robinson]

Thought you might find this interesting:

Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show
for Wednesday, March 23, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS:

Chicago postal workers burning and abandoning mail instead of
delivering it;

o Investigators for the U.S. Post Office in Chicago have found that stacks
of mail were thrown under bridges, stashed in garbage cans, burned,
etc. - the postal workers involved evidently were lazy and didn't want
to do all their job. Chicago residents are livid at this, so when
Postmaster Marvin Runyon went out there to take a look for himself, 300
of them bombarded Runyon at a recent town meeting.

Tens of thousands pieces of mail dating back to 1979 were found burning
recently, and last month 40,000 undelivered pieces of mail were discovered
in a postal worker's truck; that postal worker was suspended, but not
fired. In January, test letters that were sent to Chicago addresses were
discovered in a dead letter office in Minneapolis.

Runyon has promised to "fix this," although it might take up to five
years. Rush asks, though, if it is any wonder that the Chicago Post Office
is in such bad shape, given that Chicago is Dan Rostenkowski's home
district; Rostenkowski, of course, is implicated in the House Post Office
scandal.

Paul Robinson - Pa...@TDR.COM