Health problems linger for survivors of the anthrax attacks
"...22 people in the U.S. were exposed to anthrax through tainted letters sent through the U.S. mail. Five died. Many of those affected were U.S. Postal Service workers ..." 
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U.S. Postal Service in Crisis: Proposals to Prevent a Postal Shutdown
"...Chairman Joe Lieberman: "It’s hard to believe that it has come to this, but it has. So much of our nation’s progress is interwoven with the history of the Postal Service. If you look at some old maps of America you see that a lot of the roads we use today started out as colonial-era Post Roads. As our nation pushed west before the railroads were built, the Post Office created the Pony Express to keep America connected with its frontiers. And the Post Office’s subsidies for air mail in the early days of aviation helped jump start the fledgling airline industry." ..."
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Mix-Up at the Times: Editorial Ends Up as Front-Page Lead
"...If you look at the USPS revenues (see page 3 of this CRS report) over the past seven years, the Postal Service has suffered hardly any decline at all — revenues were about $70 billion in 2004 and $67 billion in 2010. ..."
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