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The United States Postal Service is planning on cutting about 7,500 employees and 2,000 post offices within the next year. With the recent technology wave, people are now paying their bills online and using e-mail and text messaging to communicate, which has made a huge impact on the postal service. By cutting these jobs and closing these post offices, the USPS hopes to save about $750 million each year. Another strategy they are considering to save money is cutting back to five-day deliveries instead of six. People are concerned that this might be hard on those in rural areas.
With the economy the way it is, everyone is making cut-backs. Combining post offices and eliminating employees will help save money but may take a toll on the communities. I'm sure they don't want to have to fire people, but you have to do what you have to do. They have been losing money in many of their post offices. It's definitely time for a change.
It's sad that this is happening. Having mail is important, but I understand the situation. Technology is taking over. I just want to know how the older generations who don't use this technology will fell. My guess is they wont be happy.
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