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Fun with numbers: The Postal Service is losing $25 million a day, and other spurious memes

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Admin
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An interesting story on Save the Post Office site about the spin the Post Office puts on the amount of money it is losing and how it might have been arrived at. You can see it by following this link: Fun with Numbers

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