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Article: `Postal Prophets of Doom' Decried ; Neither E-Mail Nor Fax Nor Info Highway Clouds Runyon Forecast
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- The Washington Post
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- September 27, 1994
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Postmaster General Marvin T. Runyon yesterday rejected
predictions of the Postal Service's demise as the sensationalized
grumblings of "the postal prophets of doom" and forecast a rosy
future for his agency.
Delivering a major address on his first two years as agency
chief, the postmaster general conceded he had encountered serious
mail delivery problems during the past year. But he turned aside
suggestions that those problems or new technological developments,
such as fax machines and E-mail, would undermine the Postal
Service's basic mission. "The end of the mail is nowhere in sight,"
he said.
Runyon added a caveat to his optimistic view of the future,
however, telling an audience of ...