half of those are supposed to retire over the next ten years. the post office has never had blatant job cuts, but now they are trying to be more anyplace bull. why are they losing so much money? their volume is down and the costs are high. every time you talk about closing a branch, constituents go crazy and congress gets involved trying to protect their routes and branches. this is an organization, a company, if you will, that last year lost $7,000 a minute, a minute. so something has to be done, and jock potter, the most mapost ma says these are the things on the table. we will keep writing the hand written letters, christine. monday through friday. all right. the ground shook for less than three minutes, and for some