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Fans of The Postal Service had been patiently waiting ten years for the American electronic and indie pop group to release a second album.

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The Postal Service 2013 Band Photo Fans of The Postal Service had been patiently waiting ten years for the American electronic and indie pop group to release a second album.

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Fans of The Postal Service had been patiently waiting ten years for the American electronic and indie pop group to release a second album.

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“With each day that passes without enacted postal reform further impacts the Postal Service’s already dire financial condition,” Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe tells congressional lawmakers. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Sen. Susan M. Collins, Maine Republican, sponsored the Postal Service bill considered Wednesday with Sens. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican, and Thomas R. Carper, Delaware Democrat. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail in the snow in Berea, Ohio. (Associated Press)

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Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe (left) appears Sept. 6, 2011, on Capitol Hill before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as the panel examines the economic troubles of the Postal Service, a self-funded federal agency in decline because of the Internet and advertising losses. (Associated Press)

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Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe appears Tuesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as the panel examines the serious funding woes of the Postal Service. (Associated Press)

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"The [Postal Service] is fast-approaching default and without serious reforms it will collapse and be unable to meet payroll as early as next year." — Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

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Illustration: US Postal Service