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Senators’ plea to delay postal closings ignored

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(January 1, 2015) WASHINGTON — The Postal Service plans to begin a new round of plant closings and consolidations next week that will affect dozens of mail-processing centers, despite calls from the Senate to postpone the changes. Last month, 30 senators, all but one of them Democrats, issued a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe…

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United States Post Office: Senators Call for Moratorium on Facility Closures

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A bipartisan group of 50 senators urged appropriators Thursday to include a provision in year-end, catchall spending legislation that would prevent the U.S. Post Office from closing more mail-processing facilities in the next fiscal year. “This one-year moratorium will give Congress the time it needs to enact the comprehensive postal reforms that are necessary for…

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