Correction: Postal Service-Losses story

Published August 13, 2014 9:24pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Aug. 11 about U.S. Postal Service Revenues, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the agency blamed its $2 billion loss for the quarter ending June 30 on increases in compensation and benefit costs. Although those costs did increase slightly, the overall loss reflected the agency spending $18.4 billion in operating costs against revenues of $16.5 billion.

A corrected version of the story is below:

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