Panel May Pick Which Post Offices to Close
From Times Wire Reports
The Postal Service’s desire to shut down little-used post offices among the 38,000 nationwide will probably require a panel akin to a military base-closing commission, a congressional agency said.
No lawmaker will like the idea of voters complaining about the closure of their long-standing post office, so putting together a commission is probably the only way to get it done, Comptroller General David Walker told a Senate subcommittee.
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