Post Offices On The Chopping Block

Martin's General Store and the local post office are housed in the same building on the east side of U.S. 7, a few miles south of the Canadian border. This is downtown Highgate Springs, Vt.  Should the U.S. Postal Service's plan to shutter 15 post offices in Vermont go forward, half of the small town's commercial district would close. Sen. Bernie Sanders is fighting to keep Vermont's post offices open.

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Watch a slideshow from Highgate Springs, Vt.

Read the letter sent to the Postal Regulatory Commission by Sens. Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch