Postal Service: Will keep rural post offices open

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Updated: 5/09/2012 8:25 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - The struggling U.S. Postal Service is trying to tamp down concern over its wide-scale cuts, saying it will seek to keep hundreds of rural post offices open with shorter hours.          

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe tells a news conference the new plan will save the mail agency half a billion dollars each year while addressing concerns of rural residents most opposed to post office closings.          

Previously, up to 3,700 low-revenue post offices were slated for closure or consolidation beginning sometime after May 15, many in rural areas. It was part of a multibillion-dollar postal cost-cutting effort to stave off the agency's bankruptcy.           

The Postal Service now plans to seek regulatory approval for the new plan and get community input, a process that could take several months.

 

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POSTALONE - 5/10/2012 11:20 AM
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@justmy, WOW, where to start. 1. you are very ignorant and resort to name calling to try and further your futile point. 2. The U S postal service is paid for by the sale of stamps you tool and does not get any funding from the government. 3. The postal service until a few years ago was a gold mine that was robbed by congress to fund losing programs as well as there salaries. The postal service has been required to pre fund its retirement which no company besides is required to do. You have not paid one penny towards any postal salary or program unless you bought some stamps, so stop being jealous that you work in a dead end job for min wage and lackluster education, btw its spelled greece and domestic as in your probably the domestic help.

dtomdick - 5/10/2012 8:10 AM
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I suggest that Oregon start a retirement pool for the private sector. Anyone in the Public Sector that draws more than 50 percent of there final salary as retirement, would be required to donate six percent of the excess over 50 percent of their final working salary. In other words if you made 50,000.00 while working, and retire under PERS at 60, 70, or even 100 one hundred percent of your final salary, you would have to pay 6 percent of anything in excess of 30,000, 35,000, or 50,000 etc. As for people like the ex duck football coach getting nearly 1/2 million he would have to donate 6 percent of anything over 100,000.00. Let's get fair liberal bullies, let's get fair Governor, let's get fair legislatures, let's get fair judges, let's get fair public employees, let's get fair public employers. Let's get fair. There is no such thing as fair bargaining with public unions when the fox is guarding the chicken house. Keep up the way it is going and i will surely see you in the food line.

justmy2 - 5/9/2012 7:37 PM
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Yea your right Posthole. I'm just a sheep who goes to work every day for a company who has to make a profit in order to pay it's bills and has to sell a product that the public wants and needs. Otherwise, WE GO OUT OF BUSINESS! Simple as that. I know this is a foreigh concept to people like you but thats how the real world works. As of right now, our country is 15.7 TRILLION dollars in debt and growing by about 3.97 BILLION per day. That's almost 100% of our GDP. (thats Gross Demestic Product Posthole) This rate is unsustainable, just ask Greace. I for one am fed up with paying for wasteful government programs and selfish government employees who blame everyone and everything else for their own selfish greed. But thats ok Posthole, your special.

POSTALONE - 5/9/2012 1:59 PM
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@justmy, obviously you are one of the spoon fed sheep who has not really looked into the numbers and who wants to fire sale the po to pad there wallet. Do you have any concept of what the post office does and how many packages and letters it delivers and does where ups and fedex wont. The money that fox reports is a bailout is actually money that was borrowed by congress to pay for crap. Rather than pay it all back some memers like issa and ross want to sell it.

justmy2 - 5/9/2012 10:54 AM
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The US Postal Service loses 25 million dollars per day. 25 MILLION! It's way past time they sell the Postal Service to FedEx, UPS or another privite business and be done with it.
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