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Going Postal
If there is one federal employee
more absurdly titled than the US
Surgeon General, it is surely
the US Postmaster General,
currently one William J.
Henderson. While General
Henderson does not bear the
physical humiliation of sporting
a Cap'n Crunch uniform at all
public (or, one suspects,
private) functions, he
nonetheless commands a ragtag
army of low-output,
high-maintenance employees whose
chief contribution to the last
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