USPS Proposes Streamlining Review Process for Closing Post Offices

The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a review process that officials say could help expedite decisions on facility closures and result in the shuttering of thousands of locations this year. Postal employees work out of about 32,000 locations nationwide, but with a growing number of customers buying stamps and packaging material at pharmacies, groceries and office supply stores, officials said Thursday that it is time to scale back.

The computerized system announced Thursday would allow top officials in Washington to begin reviewing sites by the summer and assess a location’s feasibility within 138 days—a sharply shorter period of review