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Posted 5/23/11 by Common Good

Legal Idiocy #9: Dead Letter Law for Dead Letter Offices

Despite operating at a loss of $8.5 billion in fiscal year 2010 alone, the United States Postal Service is hamstrung in its ability to close the least profitable of its 32,000 branches due to a law that states they can only close offices "for maintenance problems, lease expirations or other reasons that don't include profitability."