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U.S. Postal Service: Information on Post Office Closures, Appeals, and Affected Communities

GGD-97-38BR Published: Mar 11, 1997. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 1997.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Postal Service's post office closures, focusing on the: (1) Postal Service process for closing post offices; (2) number of post offices closed since 1970; (3) number of proposed post office closures appealed to the independent Postal Rate Commission (PRC) and the disposition of those appeals; and (4) selected attributes of affected communities for fiscal years (FY) 1995 and 1996.

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