July 28, 2009
The United States Postal Service was placed on a list of high-risk federal agencies in need of change on Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office.
Because of a decline in mail volume due to people and businesses switching to email, the agency could lose almost $7 billion this fiscal year. The problem is affecting post offices nationwide.
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"The postal service in general has seen a change in the way people are using their mailboxes," said Maureen Marion, the Postal Service's spokesperson for Upstate New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Marion, whose office is in Syracuse, said the Syracuse office has seen an 11 to 14 percent drop in mail this year compared to last.
"When you combine the diversion to electronic mail to other factors affecting the economy," she said, "you see a fall off in terms of the amount of mail we have to process."
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