Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, Part 2

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Page 6 - The Postal Service shall provide a maximum degree of effective and regular postal service to rural areas, communities, and small towns where post offices are not self-sustaining. No small post office shall be closed solely for operating at a deficit, it being the specific intent of the Congress that effective postal services be insured to residents of both urban and rural communities.
Page 143 - It shall be the policy of the Postal Service to maintain compensation and benefits for all officers and employees on a standard of comparability to the compensation and benefits paid for comparable levels of work In the private sector of the economy.
Page 83 - The plan submitted by each department, agency, and unit shall include, but not be limited to — "(1) provision for the establishment of training and education programs designed to provide a maximum opportunity for employees to advance so as to perform at their highest potential...
Page 16 - Congress shall have the power to establish post offices and post roads.
Page 102 - ... (2) be responsible for the review and evaluation of the operation of all agency equal employment opportunity programs, periodically obtaining and publishing (on at least a semiannual basis} progress reports from each such department, agency, or unit; and (3) consult with and solicit the recommendations of interested individuals, groups, and organizations relating to equal employment opportunity.
Page 64 - Service the following amounts : (A) for each of the fiscal years 1972 through 1979, an amount equal to 10 percent of the sum appropriated to the former Post Office Department by Act of Congress for its use in fiscal year 19T1 ; (B) for fiscal year 1980, an amount equal to 9 percent of such sum for fiscal year 1971...
Page 64 - ... (F) for fiscal year 1984, an amount equal to 5 percent of such suuj for fiscal year 1971 ; and (G) except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection for each fiscal year thereafter an amount equal to 5 percent of such sum for fiscal year 1971.
Page 64 - As reimbursement to the Postal Service for public service costs incurred by it in providing a maximum degree of effective and regular postal service nationwide...
Page 39 - Act of 1954, as amended, and all guaranties heretofore or hereafter issued pursuant to this title shall be considered contingent obligations backed by the full faith and credit of the Government of the United States of America.
Page 95 - ... managerial and supervisory performance in such a manner as to insure a continuing affirmative application and vigorous enforcement of the policy of equal opportunity, and provides orientation, training, and advice to managers and supervisors to assure their understanding and implementation of the equal opportunity policy and program...