Postmaster General
| “ | I went to Harvard, I served in the Navy and my wife went to Vassar. | ” |
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—Day, the "Kennedy Administration's resident wit and house raconteur," on his qualifications for the |
In 1961 he became U.S. Postmaster General in the administration of John F. Kennedy. There, he was responsible for reducing the postal deficit, introducing ZIP codes, and improving service and employee morale; towards the latter he signed its first labor contract, with the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association.
During his time at the job the Dag Hammarskjöld invert stamp was printed and reprinted. In August 1963, he resigned as Postmaster General, saying it was hard to live on the $25,000 salary the office paid. In 1965 he published a light-hearted memoir about his Postmaster General service, My Appointed Round: 929 days as Postmaster General (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, LCCN 65-14437).
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