European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes february 1978 delivery by mail of airline tickets apparently killed Washington i api a computerized program that would have set up on Day Man delivery of airline tickets to those making reservations appears to have been killed by opposition from travel postal service declining to be publicly said Testa had proved the feasibility of the but they said the which depend on travel agents to Send passengers their re fused to participate out of fear of Alienne in the tie sources said the raw Day mail serv ice could have lowered costs for and thus might have resulted in savings for under the proposed a traveler would Call the airline to make a Reserva Tion As often happens the flight in formation would then be transmitted electronically to the Post where a ticket would be printed and delivered with Lithe next Days m the airline would pay a Small charge Tai but to Lect to the postal service but would id paying a much larger commission to Ivel travel agents now get com Sions of at least 7 percent of the ticket which is included in the overhead of nes the program would have made it Pessary for a traveler to visit a travel t to pick up his because of Kos amnesia piled ruse get Board the sources the idea was vehemently opposed by the american society of travel i api relatives of a mail vitalized for amnesia say he has pre died to lose his memory several limes to i free room and id of a had at a Denver Hospital several weeks i where he claimed he did not re Mem r anything since his discharge from the y Al fort in i Roleta Story received National this week his Bobby was located through a Florida a Doest have she Iffe does that All the time to get free room ind Board in you cant believe he Gerald was contacted in Lauderdale and he has done it the elder Drolet in sorry you picked up on because its a bad he would not discuss it Allan Brock a faculty member at the University of Colorado medical school where Drolet is said i  be surprised that Hes gone from Hospital to that Doest mean he Doest have one postal service who also preferred to remain said a Socle to official at one Lime threatened to take Legal action or to lobby Congress for a ban on the we Are very much opposed to saw Lynn a spokeswoman for the travel agents most travel Agen s Are Small businessmen and this is like big brother taking on the Small it is unfair Competition for the government inert involved in a Little More than half of ticket Revenue for nights comes through travel other tickets Are written at the airlines downtown ticket offices or at Ana some Are sold through the mail without use of the electronic technology recently devel oped by the postal the air transport association said that under current mail ticketing procedures airlines want a reservation made about a week before the flight to allow Lime for processing the ticket and getting it to Ine the postal service sources said two air lines expressed interest in the which was first suggested by United air lines in United banked How after travel agents heard of the program and expressed their the sources favourable reaction Braniff International airlines agreed to try the program in officials of the airline reported a favourable re action among and postal sources said Braniff agreed orally to expand the program to two other Braniff then decided to cancel the Walter Braniff senior vice notified the postal service that the program would end asked if opposition from travel agents was the reason the program was Braniff spokesman Jere con we collected a lot of both Braniff and the postal service Are going to assess the data but postal who at one Lime had considered making the ticketing service available say they now consider it wanted to expand Braniff was ready to Lake on the travel they said they wanted to expand the then they were awarded a new route from Dallas to they must have figured Hal they needed the support of travel agents to fill those so they a postal service source after the Conrad letter was Deputy postmaster general William Bolger sent a memo to officials who had worked on the no one should pursue new ets i electronic ticket ing service opportunities unless Advance clearance is obtained from Bolger want immediately available for comment on the it was wonderful new York 1nyt when a clerical error put in Charles Walsh Bank he resisted the urge to withdraw it All in Small lock his front and instead according to the he prudently withdrew some of the Money in travellers the the commercial Trust co of new Jersey discovered on 10 thai it had mistakenly credited two checks to Walsh according to the Robert president of the declined saying in not going in discuss Bank matters with the the Bank went to municipal court in Steps of de the Days gala affair was set up m new York Sions top of All three Are series threes come ratings were based on Toring by Pat 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