Article Title: With Fewer Customers and Fixed Labor Costs, U.S. Postal Service Faces $7 Billion Net Loss in 2009
"...USPS will need to negotiate with its four largest unions on collective bargaining agreements that will expire in 2010 and 2011. These agreements cover about 85 percent of postal employees and include items such as cost-of-living adjustments, work rules, and layoff protections.” ..." 
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"...A quarterly publication, USA Philatelic is the only official source for the complete line of current issues from the U.S. Postal Service. ..."
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Letters to the editor of the Seattle Times
"... The U.S. Postal Service just paid $1.2 million for the postmaster's 8,400 square-foot house, so he can relocate to Texas. Isn't this nice of them to do in this spiraling economy? I think most consumers are fed up with the rise in cost and the decrease in service we have seen the past few years at most post offices...."
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"... Now that e-mail has taken the place of snail mail for many personal and business communications, the U.S. Postal Service is swimming in red ink. The solution? Cut deliveries to five days a week. That's what Postmaster General John Potter proposed to Congress earlier this week. That could mean trouble for e-commerce companies like Netflix, which depends on speedy delivery...."
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"... the U.S. Postal Service (claiming federal preemption) now says they will cease delivering to individual mailboxes in SRO’s – except in hotels that installed them more than three months ago. This effectively shuts out tenants in the private-run SRO’s whose landlords have not complied with the law..."
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"... If you’re a DHL Express customer concerned with recent announcements about its changing business, the U.S. Postal Service is ready to pick up your shipping — and we’re ready to do it today...."
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"...The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person who struck and injured a mail carrier as she made deliveries on Haws Avenue on Friday morning.
The 50-year-old mail carrier ..."
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GRAND RAPIDS --
"...An employee at the U.S. Postal Service's Kentwood branch is suspected of embezzling $15,000 by failing to record sales of stamps and pocketing customers' cash from the transactions, court records show. ..."
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"... deal being worked out raises concerns about competition. UPS spokesman Norman Black said Monday that the arrangement the company is working out with DHL is similar to one it's had for several years with the U.S. Postal Service...."
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Airport post office facility may close by year's end
"... Closing of the branch, whose official name is the Cleveland Airport Mail Center, is being considered as part of an overall streamlining plan, U.S. Postal Service spokesman David Van Allen said Monday. Danny Pride, president of Cleveland Area Local American Postal Workers Union, said the union has been told the Postal Service already has decided to close the center when its lease expires at year's end. Officials are delaying the announcement as long as possible to avoid a backlash, he said. ..."
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7 businesses have stations
"... The stations are called Contract Postal Units and were opened in the city as a response to the population surge in East Baton Rouge Parish since Hurricane Katrina, said Judith A. Brining, customer relations coordinator for the U.S. Postal Service in Baton Rouge. ..."
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