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===Post Office===

===Post Office===

In the period around 1830, the Post Office Department (as it was then known) had fallen into corrupt practices of "straw bids" and "unbalanced bids".<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=7mFMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22andrew+jackson%22+%22post+office%22+Barry&source=bl&ots=otQEtbindC&sig=bezxqSKT4q37-zxfpZ4IBqpmEf8&hl=en&ei=ccPASvTIMIqW8AahvJy8AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Andrew Jackson''], William Graham Sumner, published by Houghton Mifflin; 1899.</ref>  To undo the damage done by Postmaster William T. Barry and his chief clerk Reverend Obadiah B. Brown, President [[Directory:Andrew Jackson|Andrew Jackson]] imposed on his friend and Navy auditor, William Kendall, to replace the postmaster. Kendall was quickly able to see what had to be done to restrain this culture of thievery. An administrative talent, Kendall reorganized the Post Office into a comprehensive system of administrative checks and balances, minting new offices of accounts, appointment, contracts, and inspection.  Each was to be watchful of the others.  Lower-level jobs were redefined to reduce the opportunity for graft's temptation.  For example, no longer would those who issued mail contracts be the ones to oversee fulfillment.<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/pss/2130516 ''A short, ironic history of American national bureaucracy''], Michael Nelson in ''The Journal of Politics''; 1982.</ref>

In the period around 1830, the Post Office Department (as it was then known) had fallen into corrupt practices of "straw bids" and "unbalanced bids".<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=7mFMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22andrew+jackson%22+%22post+office%22+Barry&source=bl&ots=otQEtbindC&sig=bezxqSKT4q37-zxfpZ4IBqpmEf8&hl=en&ei=ccPASvTIMIqW8AahvJy8AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Andrew Jackson''], William Graham Sumner, published by Houghton Mifflin; 1899.</ref>  To undo the damage done by Postmaster William T. Barry and his chief clerk Reverend Obadiah B. Brown, President [[Directory:Andrew Jackson|Andrew Jackson]] imposed on his friend and Navy auditor, William Kendall, to replace the postmaster. Kendall was quickly able to see what had to be done to restrain this culture of thievery. An administrative talent, Kendall reorganized the Post Office into a comprehensive system of administrative checks and balances, minting new offices of accounts, appointment, contracts, and inspection.  Each was to be watchful of the others.  Lower-level jobs were redefined to reduce the opportunity for graft's temptation.  For example, no longer would those who issued mail contracts be the ones to oversee fulfillment.<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/pss/2130516 ''A short, ironic history of American national bureaucracy''], Michael Nelson in ''The Journal of Politics''; 1982.</ref>

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