Postal Service will keep rural post offices open

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 9, 2012
Tags: mail, post office, postal service, postmaster general, u.s. postal service
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WASHINGTON — The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours. At a news briefing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the mail agency was backing off its plan to close up to 3,700 low-revenue [...]

Mikulski, Cardin seek halt to postal center study

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 23, 2012
Tags: Barbara Mikulski, ben cardin, Eastern Shore, easton, mail delivery, maryland, maryland senators, post office, postmaster general

EASTON — Maryland’s senators are demanding a halt to any study by the Postal Service involving the closing of the distribution center in Easton and moving mail processing to Wilmington, Del. In a letter dated Thursday to the Postmaster General, Democratic Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin said the call for a new study lacks [...]

In financial crisis, post office turns to Congress

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 6, 2011
Tags: joe lieberman, mail, patrick donahoe, post office, postal service, postmaster general, postmaster general patrick donahoe, senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, treasury, united states postal service, usps

WASHINGTON — Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe warned that the Postal Service is on “the brink of default” as he battles to keep his agency solvent. Without legislation by Sept. 30, the agency “will default on a mandated $5.5 billion payment to the Treasury,” Donahoe told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday. [...]