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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “We don't want the Post Office to disintegrate before our very eyes, and this may happen.”

On the recordMay 19, 2009
We don't want the Post Office to disintegrate before our very eyes, and this may happen.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Warns about the potential collapse of the Postal Service.

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