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Then, leaving Sniffell absorbed in an imagined effort
to inject a syringe of herbicide precisely in the puncture
hole where Ida Sniffell had just donated a pint of blood,
Hayes walked over to the post office to buy some
stamps so that he could cross at least that off his list.
At the post office this Friday morning Judith Haig
had herself received a news item in the form of a letter
from the headquarters of the postmaster general. It
advised her that in the interest of saving the American
taxpayers money (Hayes would have interjected that
they were already paying the military well over
$100,000,000,000 a year to defend their country, so it
was quite true they could use a break), cutbacks in
postal service would be necessary. As soon as the
investigatory committee determined which branches
were to be lopped off (and obtaining that information
would cost the taxpayers at least a million), the ax
would fall on the unproductive. The postmaster wished
the postmistress of Dingley Falls, Connecticut, to know
that her office had been running at a loss for fifty years,
that last year it had shown an income of only $7,719.30
($844.65 of it came from Sammy Smalter) and an