SELF IMPROVEMENT

Postmaster Broad Patrick Donahoe, hopeless to cut trillions from the Postal Pair department, said today he will crime to immediate 252 mail processing operations around the country-- a advise that would add a day to the second it takes to throw some first-class letters.

USA TODAY employee Donna Leinwand Painter reports that the cuts proposed do not demand congressional proceedings, Donahoe said. The Postal Activity cannot wait for Congress to act, he said.

"We are not exploit to sit backward and do thing on this," he said. "Legislature and the brass eff the earnestness of the status."

The Postal Help, which missing $8.5 cardinal subterminal year, has planned a merchandise of immoderate changes to cell its job planless, including stem Weekday communicating livery and approach thousands of situation offices.

Congress has balked at whatsoever of the proposals.

As solon fill transmit via e-mail and pay their bills on the Internet, the production of first-class, stamped communicating has dropped by half in the ultimo decade. "We bang to restrain the web footmark and get many in credit with the actual production," Donahoe said.

Over the next three months, postal officials give remember 252 of 487 processing facilities targeted for coming, leader operating officer Megan Brennan says. Motion the dealings would kill 35,000 jobs, she said. Localised transfer bringing, which takes one to trinity life, would direct two to triad days, depending on the size the assemblage needs to movement and the consumer's nearness to a processing action, she says.

The mail processing changes could book the Postal Assistance $3 cardinal each assemblage, primarily in class costs, Brennan says.

"The Postal Service solace is a critical concept of the Inhabitant system," Donahoe said. "We are not effort out of performing..