
“With each day that passes without enacted postal reform further impacts the Postal Service’s already dire financial condition,” Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe tells congressional lawmakers. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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**FILE** A Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail in the snow in Berea, Ohio. (Associated Press)

“With each day that passes without enacted postal reform further impacts the Postal Service’s already dire financial condition,” Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe tells congressional lawmakers. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Letter carrier Felipe Raymundo moves a cart of mail to his truck to begin delivery Monday in Seattle, the same day the cash-strapped Postal Service said it will close 252 mail processing. (Associated Press)

Sen. Susan M. Collins, Maine Republican, sponsored the Postal Service bill considered Wednesday with Sens. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican, and Thomas R. Carper, Delaware Democrat. (Associated Press)

Sen. Susan M. Collins, Maine Republican, sponsored the Postal Service bill considered Wednesday with Sens. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican, and Thomas R. Carper, Delaware Democrat. (Associated Press)

Letter carrier Felipe Raymundo moves a cart of mail to his truck to begin delivery Monday in Seattle, the same day the cash-strapped Postal Service said it will close 252 mail processing. (Associated Press)

**FILE** A Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail in the snow in Berea, Ohio. (Associated Press)