USA TODAY: Under pressure from Congress and local communities, the cash-strapped agency has instead decided to trim operations at 13,000 post offices to between two and six hours per day, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says. The plan gives communities a few other options:
•Close their post office and start up door-to-door delivery;
•Offer stamp sales and fixed-rate shipping in already-existing small community businesses such as local pharmacies or grocery stores;
•Merge the local post office with another nearby post office.
Post offices already shuttered will stay closed, but the 400 post offices in the process of closing will remain open… (more)
EDITOR: There are only halfway remedies. Given the ever wider use of e-mail, we recommend delivery only five times a week (and then only for the next few years) and postal service desks being created in supermarkets to replace rural post offices as is done in other nations.
