The Senate this week will take up legislation that would prevent the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service from closing hundreds of local post offices and require it to continue Saturday and overnight mail delivery.
Post office officials have been threatening to start shutting down postal facilities and reducing service as a way to close an $8.3 billion budget gap they say resulted from the increasing number of people now paying bills and conducting other business over the Internet.
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