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...United States Postal Service recently announced its plan to cut Saturday mail delivery in the face of growing deficits and decreasing mail volume. The cuts have widespread public support from 71 percent of Americans, including majorities of both political parties, even though the projected job losses are undesirable for a country just exiting a major recession. Simultaneously, the reiteration of the USPS’s financial woes has prompted some calls for the agency to fully privatize. We support the Saturday service cuts as an unpleasant but necessary money-saving measure; however, we reject any calls for the Postal Service...
...make massive cuts in the future. Furthermore, because the job losses due to cutting service on Saturdays will occur primarily through attrition via retirement and early retirement packages, they will not do the economy too great a disservice. Thus, the Postal Service should continue ahead with its well-researched plan to cut costs but should retain its privileged public position in the years to come...
Harriet Carrier, who spends more of her time with the customers, recalls an 80-year-old man who once came looking for maps of straits in South America to plan for a trip as a member of the working crew of a three-masted sailboat...
HUCTW and the University plan to arrive at a contract agreement by June...
...with actress Jennifer Love Hewitt. One of the foundation’s first stops for networking has been at Harvard, with Friedman’s friends. Friedman’s former roommate Mark A. Isaacson ’11, a Crimson editorial columnist, said that he and other friends plan to work next fall to give Mikey’s Way a sustainable presence on the Harvard campus through creating a Harvard chapter of the foundation and possibly partnering with the Cancer Society...