While the rest of the nation celebrates the holidays, the U.S. Post Office yearly undergoes its weeks of winter discontent. This year the Post Office staggered beneath a record 9 billion pieces of holiday mail, an avalanche that subsides only gradually in the last hours of the old year. By diverting $30 million from next spring's budget, hiring temporary workers earlier than usual and winning a high degree of public cooperation even the White House used ZIP codes on its Christmas cards the Post Office managed to get by with...
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