CORRESPONDENCE:

...Clearly the Postal Service as a corporation has gotten out of hand...

...the development of our nation...

...Since your editorial was written, we have been informed of plans by the Postal Service-arbitrary and unilateral, requiring no Congressional or Postal Rate Commission approval-to increase special fees for special delivery letters, certified mail, address corrections and like fees by up to 150 per cent in November...

...Now we face another increase in postage which is almost certain to cut down on the use of the mail probably resulting in a reduction in income and then I suppose they'll raise the rates again...

...All of them were published in bilingual editions in Bol-lingen Series between 1949 and 1966, except for T. S. Eliot's translation of Anabase, which had originally appeared in 1930...

...You are certainly correct that a monumental mistake was made in 1970 when the postal service was taken out of the hands of the government and put in the hands of a corporation seeking to make money...

...Current increases are even worse (Continued on page 634) CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 611) than you point out...

...Unfortunately, the article gives no impression that St.-John Perse's poems are translated into English...

...william mcguire Associate Editor Bollingen Series Postal Blues New York, N.Y...

...Indeed, Father Sam-way's quotation from Amers is in the Bollingen translation of Seamarks by Wallace Fowlie, whom he cites as a critic...

...JERRY VOORHIS...

...24] on St.-John Perse (Alexis Leger) is a well observed and moving tribute to this great but rather too little known poet...

...At the present time, Arthur Knodel is preparing an annotated translation of St.-John Perse's correspondence, which will also be published in Bollingen Series...

...Your editorial clearly points out the frightening increases in postal costs and the rapid transition of the postal service into a profit-oriented private corporation far removed from the citizen-service government agency established in the first days of the republic, and so important for the spread of news and thought in...

...CORRESPONDENCE St.-John Perse Princeton, NJ...

...To the Editors: Congratulations on your fine editorial on "Postal Dis-service" in the handsome October 24 Fall Book Issue of Commonweal...

...We applaud your editorial statement of this position...

...To the Editors: I can't refrain from writing to commend Commonweal on its editorial in the issue of October 24 entitled "Postal Disservice...

...Just as clearly, return of postal matters to control by Congress seems the only good solution...

...JAMES A. DOYLE Executive Director Catholic Press Association Claremont, Calif...

...It may be added that for several years, beginning in 1946, Alexis Leger was a Fellow of Bollingen Foundation...

...Apparently it has never occurred to them they might lower them and receive so much increased business that they might make both ends meet financially in the way it really ought to be done...

...In 1971, Princeton University Press, which had taken over publication of Bollingen Series, published the Collected Poems, including all these works...