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2009 Annual Report United States Postal Service | 9
While the economic challenges we
faced, and continue to face, have
prompted the nation to closely exam-
ine the business model of the Postal
Service and its role in 21st-century
America, what hasn’t changed is the
power of the mail.
Mail connects people and business-
es. It provides trusted communica-
tions. It’s the foundation of a trillion-
dollar industry that employs millions
of Americans.
The potential of the mail remains as
strong as ever.
The Postal Service successfully removed
more than $6 billion in costs, including:
■ Cutting 115 million work hours, the
equivalent of 65,000 positions.
■ Closing six district administrative
offi ces.
■ Adjusting carrier routes to refl ect
diminished volume and eliminating
nearly 12,000 carrier routes.
■ Instituting a nationwide hiring
freeze.
■ Reducing authorized
staffi ng levels at
national and regional
offi ces by 15 percent.
■ Selling unused and under-
utilized postal facilities.
■ Adjusting Post Offi ce hours to
better refl ect customer use.
■ Consolidating mail processing
operations.
■ Halting construction of new
postal facilities.
■ Freezing salaries of all Postal
Service offi cers and executives.
Service is our priority,
Postmaster General John E.
Potter told members of the
mailing industry at the annual
National Postal Forum.
It wasn’t the
recession alone
that created
fi nancial
obstacles for
the Postal
Service.