
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, October 8, 1994                   TAG: 9410110020
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun
DATELINE: BALTIMORE                                LENGTH: Short

RATING DOESN'T STOP MAIL BOSSES' SEMINAR

Three days after mail service in the Washington-Baltimore region was rated worst in the nation, 16 managers from the area flew to Florida for morale-boosting seminars that officials said will improve beleaguered mail service.

The four-day leadership sessions, attended by 85 managers from Baltimore, Washington, Richmond and Northern Virginia, cost $137,000. They were designed to produce a lasting change in attitude and performance.

Union leaders called it a junket.

``How can you send all these people down there when they say they don't have any money?'' said Ron Liszewski, president of the Baltimore chapter of the American Postal Workers Union.

Postal officials acknowledged that the trip could be seen as poor timing because it came so soon after the Sept. 30 report.

The survey, conducted over four months, concluded that only 66 out of every 100 first-class letters that were supposed to be delivered overnight made it on time here. Nationwide, 82 percent of mail was delivered on time.

by CNB