Metro: The death of the American post office

Photo: NICOLAUS CZARNECKI/METRO
Photo: NICOLAUS CZARNECKI/METRO

I contributed to one and grabbed a byline on another in a small package for Metro on talk of closing Philadelphia post offices in response to lagging volume.

With mail volume down, jobs dwindling and the highest deficit in agency history, technology has brought the United States Postal Service into its darkest days.

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Below some quotations that didn’t make it into the piece.

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