[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H7368-H7369]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                      PROBLEMS AT THE POST OFFICE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, Martha Cherry, a letter carrier for 18 
years, has been fired. The Postal Service said, ``Your stride is too 
short.'' If that is not enough to put a runner in your pantyhose, check 
this out.
  According to the Postal Service, they wrote in the report that the 
heels of your leading foot did not pass the toe of your trailing foot 
by more than 1 inch, thus it took you 10 minutes longer to deliver the 
mail.
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. Is this the KGB or the Postal Service? The 
truth

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is, these postal managers could not deliver their way out of a paper 
bag. I believe they do not even know their heads from their assets. I 
say the Congress should join with Martha Cherry and give her a hand in 
putting her 13-inch goose step right up their gestapo tactics.
  After all, I admit the Postal Service has a problem, but it is not 
Martha Cherry's footwork.
  I yield back the balance of all this chicanery.

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