Try to stay calm…

3,700 post offices are facing closure as the U.S. Postal Service looks for ways to combat ever-dwindling profits.

The Postal Service hopes the contraction will save $200 million a year. That does not come close to recouping the $8 billion the agency is expected to lose for the second year running as it fights plummeting mail volume. But postal officials said they intend to review half of their network of 32,000 post offices for closure in the next decade as they try to slash labor costs.”

Thanks to The Associated Press!

Among the offices facing the possibility of shutdown is one that was once operated by Benjamin Franklin, the founder of the modern day postal service.

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