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Universit Dailv Kansan / Wednesdav March 23.1988
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Post offices trim hours because of budget cuts
By a Kansan reporter
The mail might be arriving a little later than usual for some offices on campus because of a new schedule of hours at the Strong Hall postal station.
Cuts in the U.S. Postal Service's budget have decreased window service hours at all Lawrence post offices, including the Strong Hall station.
The station now opens two hours later, at 11 a.m., and closes at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Lareeda Hickey, U.S. postal service worker at Strong Hall, said full-time workers still will work eight hours a day.
"We just work the mail longer and open later," she said. "We're cutting back on part-time help about 12 or 13 hours a week."
Bill Lawrence, superintendent of Lawrence postal operations, said that other Lawrence offices had cut costs by closing for an hour in the
The Jawhawk Station post office, 1519 W. 23rd St. is now open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. It is also open from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
afternoon.
The post office at 645 Vermont St. now is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
The cuts save the postal service about 25-30 labor hours a week, which amounts to about 5500 a week. Lawrence said. He said that government-mandated federal budget cuts forced the service to trim its budget.
Cuts in Lawrence amount to a decrease in labor costs, but nationwide, the cuts may mean no provisions for new buildings and other major projects. Lawrence said.
Lawrence also said that mail collection runs on Sunday were canceled because of federal budget cuts.
April 3 is day for new stamps
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Higher postage letters, including a 25-cent charge for first-class letters, will take effect April 3, the Postal Service announced yesterday.
Rates for mail going overseas will also rise to 45 cents for the first half-ounce.
Users of first-class postage face a 14.7 percent hike, compared with jumps of 18.1 percent for newspapers and magazines and 24.9 percent for mailers of advertising material.
Postal officials have said the increases were needed to avoid deficits for the agency that could reach $5 billion in 1989. The Postal Service lost more than $220 million last year.
The new rates do include a cut in the price paid by industry for business-reply envelopes that consumers can send without paying any postage. The lowest rate will drop from 7 cents to 5 cents, a move aimed at encouraging more businesses to offer these envelopes.
Anthropologists gather for conference
Bv Brenda Finnell
An international group of physical anthropologists will travel to Kansas City this week to discuss topics ranging from research in brain evolution and skeletal biology to studies of primate behavior and genetics.
The University of Kansas department of anthropology will be host to the 57th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, which begins tomorrow and runs through Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City,
Mo.
More than 700 people are expected to attend the meeting, which will feature more than 250 presentations in 33 sessions. Speakers will be from institutions across the United States and also from Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland and Tanzania.
This is the second time that KU has been host to the association's meeting. The last time was in 1972, when the organization had its annual meeting in Lawrence.
Kansan staff writer
Jim Mielke, professor of anthropology, and David Frayer, associate professor of anthropology, organized the meeting and said KU's role in the meeting would bring the University national attention.
"It brings a lot of attention focused on the department of anthropology and our University and on our programs." Frayer said.
Several current and former KU faculty members and graduate students will present papers and attend the sessions, Mielke said.
A special session titled, "The Fate of the Neanderthals" will be tomorrow evening. During the session, human evolutionists from around the world will discuss Neanderthra;&and their role in the origin of modern Euroneans.
At an association-sponsored luncheon on Friday, Alexander Marshack, a specialist in冰 Age art, will speak about how symbolic capacities originated in Europeans between 10,000 and 100,000 years ago.
The American Association of Physical Anthropologists was founded in 1918.
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