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To: stockman_scott who wrote (9266)	10/20/2001 7:07:46 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 57684

Attacks Imperil Postal Service's Fiscal Future Already, at least one newspaper -- the Arizona Daily Star -- has told readers it will no longer accept "snail mail" addressed to Letters to the Editor, its Caliente entertainment guideand its Community Calendar, the three features that generate the most mail to the newsroom. Instead, readers were asked to use e-mail, fax or the online calendar. ------ "It's bad, and it's going to be worse," said Gene Del Polito, president of the Association for Postal Commerce, a trade group of heavy mail users. "Certain catalogue sales are down by 20 to 25 percent, and there's general anxiety about the anthrax threat. Between the two of them and the continuing downturn in the economy, it will press the Postal Service's resources to their absolute limit." washingtonpost.com My comments: eBay auctions also at risk.