You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

U.S. Postal Service to Cut up to 35,000 Jobs in $3 Billion Cost-Cutting Plan

HeadlineSep 16, 2011

The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a plan to eliminate up to 35,000 jobs as part of an ongoing effort to avoid collapse. The $3 billion cost-cutting move would also see the closure of more than 250 mail-processing sites and the downsizing of the postal service’s transportation network nationwide.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top