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With email taking over now, the post office has been hemorrhaging출혈 money. So today the postal service proposed raising the price of a first class stamp to 46 cents. Though experts are trying to dream up even more radical action to save the service. And here is Dan Harris.

 

The postal service now wants to raise your stamp prices by 2 cents and make sending small packages about 7% more expensive. But that is not likely to stop the bleeding. In recent years, the postal service has let go of more than 200,000 employees and cut $ 1 billion a year in expenses and it’s still looking at a deficit of $ 7 billion this year. So now the postal service is proposing cutting Saturday delivery which would save $2 to 3 billion a year.

 

And there are other ideas pouring in from all over including turning the nation’s 36,000 post offices into places where you can buy retail items, get hunting and fishing licenses or just hang out kind of like Starbucks. “It could well be something like that, where you get Wi-Fi or you get help with the, some sort of identification card that you need or more information.” Another idea, charge customers for the ability to go online see what letters and packages are coming your way, and have them either sent quicker or thrown away. Despite all its problems, the postal service does deliver mail to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and to the outer reaches of Alaska. And supporters say it remains indispensible없어서는 안되는. Dan Harris, ABC News.

 

And do you recognize this voice? Ilene Woods won the heart of prince charming and little girls everywhere is the speaking and singing voice of Cinderella in Disney’s animated classic. She was just 18 when Walt Disney offered her the part in 1948. She once said the best think about playing Cinderella was that her children would hear her voice after she was gone. Ilene Woods has died at the age of 81.

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