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		<title>Will The U.S. Postal Service Close Post Offices?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 5, 2009 Looks like the United States may be looking at more fallout blamed on the recession. Nearly 700 post offices could close because of it. The U.S. Postal Service needs to figure out how to solve a $7 Billion loss f0r 2009. That 2 cent rate increase just didn&#8217;t seem to help at [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-838" title="post-office-closures" src="http://www.180news.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/post-office-closures2-300x212.jpg" alt="post-office-closures" width="300" height="212" />Looks like the United States may be looking at more fallout blamed on the recession. Nearly 700 post offices could close because of it. The U.S. Postal Service needs to figure out how to solve a $7 Billion loss f0r 2009. That 2 cent rate increase just didn&#8217;t seem to help at all.</p>
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