Baucus: Postmaster should visit Montana post offices before closures

U. S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is telling the postmaster general, Patrick Donahoe, that he should visit rural Montana post offices before making any decisions to close some of them.

The U. S. Postal Service announced last year that it would be closing three mail processing facilities in the state, perhaps leading to a net loss of 11 jobs in the state. The agency says cuts are needed to meet budget demands exacerbated by a 25 percent decline in mail volume since 2006.

Not long after the processing consolidation, USPS said it was going to look at closing nearly 4,000 small-town post offices acr...