Postal Service Looks To Cut 40,000 Jobs In First Layoff In History

KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana |Postal Service Looks To Cut 40,000 Jobs In First Layoff In History: "'We lost 2 billion dollars and like any other business we have to stay afloat.' And to keep from sinking, the United States Postal Service is considering cutting thousands of jobs nationwide. Lavelle Pepper with the post office in Shreveport says they too are feeling the affects of the same disease hitting the country... a struggling economy. 'We employ about 685,000 people. If we do layoffs it would include clerks, carriers, mail handlers across all crafts.'"