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In a recent About Du Page column on the new zip code for Bolingbrook, Katherine Seigenthaler quotes Gordon Braun, Bolingbrook village manager, as saying, ”Unfortunately, the telephone company and the post office are two distinct units of government….”

Clearly Illinois Bell is tightly controlled by the FCC, but it is hardly a unit of government. Indeed, next year all the Bell operating companies will be deregulated to a certain degree when their profits will no longer be limited, only their prices.