The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it is considering closing about 3,700 post offices over the next year because of falling revenues.

He estimated that about 3,000 postmasters, 500 station managers and between 500 and 1,000 postal clerks couldlose their jobs.

Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.

"Due to this arctic outbreak and concerns for the safety of USPS employees,55 USPS announced Wednesday morning," the Postal Service is suspending delivery Jan.

Even the United States Postal Service (USPS) suspended mail delivery.

Postal services work hard to identify items that require priority treatment.

Private postal companies also support disaster relief efforts by distributing urgent supplies.

The United States Postal Service has a system to ensure its employees’ safety.

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

Now comes word that everyone involved---Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users --as finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

Most of the money would come from a penny-per-letter permanent rate increase and from shifting postal retirees into Medicare.

It is not, however, a sign that they' re getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress-insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress一insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protect

But postal special- interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate-where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

It is not, however, a sign that they're getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.

Now comes word that everyone involved—Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users—has finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.