Consolidate Postal Service to Save Taxpayers' Money ; People Don't Want to Lose Their Neighborhood Post Offices, but It Could Be Necessary.

Portland Press Herald › January 02, 2004

Linked as:

Summary

Taxpayers like the government to make cutbacks, except when it means those cutbacks will affect them. Many people aren't going to be happy with changes that will make the U.S. Postal Service a leaner agency.

This summer, a federal commission recommended that a number of post offices nationwide close and the ones that remain employ fewer workers.

See the full content of this document

Extract

Consolidate Postal Service to Save Taxpayers' Money ; People Don't Want to Lose Their Neighborhood Post Offices, but It Could Be Necessary.

The U.S. Postal Service is important to Maine, pro...

See the full content of this document