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After deciding to close 491 post offices last year, the struggling US Postal Service will add as many as 2,000 additional branches to that tally beginning in March. Another 16,000 unprofitable ones will also be reviewed, as the USPS pushes Congress to allow them to close the worst performing, the Wall Street Journal reports (the law doesn't cite profitability as a reason for closing a post office).
And last year they proposed also raising the rates and dropping a delivery day. Years ago that would have elicited a hue and cry but this time "the silence was deafening.". Having a Post Office in your town is no longer so much a source of pride.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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We have never had one, in our city of 55,000. I can't remember the last time I went to one so it's not going to make any difference. Now if they could just stop delivering mail, I'd have a lot less bills and junk mail.
That's ok. All I get is junk mail and bills anyway.
Did you know you can request first class mail only????
No junk!!!!
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