Article Title: Is Congress Biting the Postman? Article Snip: the number of people employed by the postal service has fallen even more sharply. In 2000 the system employed 787,500 workers. Last year it employed 623,100, a drop of 20.1 percent. This means that the Postal Service has been scaling back its workforce more than proportionately to the decline in mail volume Reference: talkingpointsmemo.com
Article Title: Layoffs in the future for Postal Employees?Article Snip: Layoffs in the future for Postal Employees? Now that is scary news. If the Postmaster of this great country is forecasting this kind of "doom and gloom" and pointing the finger at the American Postal Worker and their wages and benefits Reference: federalemployeenews.blogspot.com
