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THE US Postal Service has an unofficial creed that harks back to Herodotus, who wasadmiring the Persian empires stalwart messengers. Its own history is impressive too, datingto a royal licence by William and Mary in 1692, and including Benjamin Franklin as a notablepostmaster, both for the crown and then for the newly independent country. Ever since, the post has existed to bind theNation together.
美国邮政服务有条非正式的信条。这一信条的出处要回溯到希罗多德,他对波斯国王忠实可靠的信使大为赞赏。美国邮政,历史悠久,于1692年得到威廉国王和玛利皇后的皇家许可,开始邮政服务。本杰明.弗兰克林出任邮政总长更是值得一提:他曾先后为英国皇家和刚刚独立的美国服务,出任此职。从此以后,邮政的存在象征着整个国家连在一起。
But as ever more Americans go online instead of sending paper, the volume of mail has beenplummeting . The decline is steeper than even pessimists expected a decadeago, says Patrick Donahoe, the current postmaster-general. Worse, because the post mustdeliver to every address in the countryabout 150m, with some 1.4m additions every yearcosts are simultaneously going up. As a result, the post has lost $20 billion in the last fouryears and expects to lose another $8 billion this fiscal year.
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