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On the recordApril 24, 2012
This is a straightforward amendment. It modifies the new service requirement to encourage colocation in other businesses. One of the things that is going to happen to the Postal Service where they can't--85 percent of our post offices are losing money. So what we can do is keep service but have it at a different location for a much lower cost. All this amendment does is encourage the Postmaster General to consider that as part of the service standard in meeting that requirement. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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