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Article: Postal Service Allows Some Saturday Closings; Scattered Shutdowns Reported Despite Vow
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 27, 1988
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On Saturdays, the U.S. Postal Service closes every post office in
Detroit and all but a handful in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, despite
promises that service cutbacks would be carried out in the least
disruptive manner for customers.
Former postmaster general Preston R. Tisch had said Saturday
closings wouldn't happen. "Saturday is the day most individual
mail-users do business with the Postal Service," he wrote consumer
advocate Ralph Nader.
But decisions on when to close post offices to help recoup $160
million were delegated to the Postal Service's 74 regional managers
because of differences in postal use from city to city, according to
John Mulligan, senior assistant postmaster ...