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Friday, April 26
The USPS plans to close 252 mail processing centers, including its Irving Park processing and distribution center near O'Hare Airport and eight others in Illinois. The Trib claims that the closures will mostly affect minority workers. (No word yet whether any of the endangered post offices will close.)