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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2011, file photo Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe speaks 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, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Seeing no immediate help from Congress, the cash-strapped Postal Service is pushing ahead with unprecedented cuts to first-class mail next spring that will slow delivery and eliminate overnight service for the first time in 40 years. From left are Donahoe, John Berry, director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Phillip Herr, director of physical infrastructure issues for the Government Accountability Office, and Thomas Levy, chief actuary of The Segal Company, serving as a consultant on postal employee benefits.