This happened after the Post Office Department Chicago disaster. For a variety of reasons having to do with the routing of the railroads most non-preferential mail went from local post offices to Chicago where it was redirected to delivery offices.
Direct Mail Advertising was a growing business. The system collapsed in October 1966 when hundreds of tractor trailers full of mail ended up backed in near downtown residential neighborhoods waiting to be unloaded at the Chicago General Post Office.
The GPO itself was shut down for three weeks in the critical Fall Christmas advertising period.
Several years later the Post Office Department strike occurred when inflation reduced the value of postal pay to near welfare levels.
Congress finally took action to solve the problem of limited capacity and low postal pay with the Postal Reorganization Act that Richard Nixon signed.
NO ONE DIED in the Chicago mail backup. NO ONE DIED in the Postal strike. PEOPLE ARE DYING due to ATF's multipronged scandals.
No one will be retained as that agency is disposed of by Republicans in February 2013.
>>No one will be retained as that agency is disposed of by Republicans in February 2013.<<
Please shred your drivers license if you are going to insist on consuming unauthorized medications. The BATFE will only continue to grow in size and authority. NO Federal employees will suffer from the illegalities of Fast and Furious or Gun Runner Programs.
This investigation is all about blowing smoke up our rear ends to give us a false impression that our Washington representatives are effective at protecting citizens rights. This will take some heat off of the TSA gropers. It is not meant to reduce federal employment or correct civil injustices.