Postal cuts may actually help students after all
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Bobbi Crump moves mail on a conveyor at the United States Postal Service (USPS) Chicago Logistics and Distribution Center on December 17, 2012 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois..The post office may be an endangered historical place, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, but a bill currently working its way through the House and Senate is looking to bring the U.S. Postal Service into the 21st century.
"The Postal Service could deliver better service at the price now or even cheaper if it were allowed to realign its services with the way Americans have already changed their use of the mail," said Ali Ahmad, senior communications adviser for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "The goal of postal reform is in letting go of these services, which really fit an older, more 20th-century use of the mail, and make it a better service for everybody who needs it in the 21st century."
Meryl Gottlieb is a Summer 2013 Paste BN Collegiate Correspondent. Learn more about her here.
This story originally appeared on the Paste BN College blog, a news source produced for college students by student journalists. The blog closed in September of 2017.