The troubled mail carrier, which lost $6.5 billion in the first six months
of fiscal 2012, is eager to cut costs by enticing workers to leave
voluntarily. Earlier this month, the Postal Service offered $20,000 buyouts
to some 21,000 postmasters under a separate plan to trim operating expenses
at 13,000 post offices.

The U.S. Postal Service is offering $15,000 buyouts to virtually all of its
45,000 career mail handlers, a spokesman said Friday.

Confirmation of the agreement with the mail handlers union came a week after
USPS executives said they would proceed with the closing or consolidation of
48 mail processing plants this summer as the first step in a historic
downsizing that will eventually shrink the plant network by half and
eliminate 28,000 jobs.

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Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP

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