Opinion: Postal Service seems bound to shoot itself

(January 4, 2015) The U.S. Postal Service next week plans to begin a new round of plant closings and consolidations that will affect dozens of mail-processing centers, including three in Mississippi, despite calls from more than half the members of the outgoing Senate to postpone the changes. Earlier this month, 30 senators, all but one…

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Mail delivery changes leave some subdivisions in a bind

By Mary Ann Ford – January 4, 2014 NORMAL — Residents who live in the Trails on Sunset Lake subdivision don’t have to go far to get their mail.  Individual mailboxes are on posts near the curb, close to their homes on Normal’s far east side.  But future residents — and those of other new…

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