Wednesday, December 07, 2011

AMERICA - U.S. Postal Service, Goodby Next-Day Letters

"U.S. Postal Service Faces Big Changes Amid Struggle to Deliver on Profitability" PBS Newshour 12/5/2011

Excerpt

GWEN IFILL (Newshour): The U.S. Postal Service formally announced cuts in postal service today that will affect how millions send and receive mail as soon as next spring. It was a bid to save money, as the agency tries to reverse its increasingly desperate financial situation.

Come next spring, that first-class letter will take a bit longer to get where it's going. Almost half of the nation's mail processing centers, 252 of them, will be shut down. That, in turn, will virtually eliminate the chance that a stamped letter could arrive the next day.

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