Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
As the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors on Thursday held a meeting in Washington, D.C., frustrated USPS workers, customers, and union officials rallied outside to protest a new limit on public comment and the agency's austerity plan.
'The consolidations will also create excess space in processing facilities that will then be used to house a sorting and delivery center, which relocates letter carriers away from post offices,' Hutkins explained. 'The carriers will need to drive 10 or 20 miles to their routes, which will increase costs and pollution.
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