Postal Service takes a licking over cuts From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: March 28, 1988 | Copyright (null) Chicago Sun-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

WASHINGTON The U.S. Postal Service closes every post office in Detroit on Saturdays and all but a handful in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, despite promises that service cutbacks would be carried out in the least disruptive manner for customers.

Former Postmaster General Preston R. Tisch had promised no Saturday closings. "Saturday is the day most individual mail-users do business with the Postal Service," he wrote consumer advocate Ralph Nader.

But decisions on when to close...

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