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On the recordSeptember 5, 2011
I do not hear any great appetite for laying folks off. I do not hear him say, 'We are asking for that as an authority.' I think that would be their last choice.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper discusses the Postal Service's reluctance to lay off employees.

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