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Local-to-local mail delivery now takes 2 days instead of 1

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By Dan Nephin – January 20, 2015 If Aunt Mary lives in Lititz and you live, say, in Quarryville and want to mail her a birthday card, you’ll want to send it a day earlier. The U.S. Postal Service has ended next-day delivery of most first-class mail sent locally as part of its ongoing overhaul…

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How the new service standards may slow down much more mail than the Postal Service is saying

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(January 11, 2015) The mail is slowing down again, but it’s not clear how much. There’s good reason to be believe, though, that it will more than the Postal Service is saying. The first slowdown took place in July 2012, when the Postal Service implemented phase one of the Network Rationalization plan, which closed about 150 mail…

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