Here in the U.S., the Postmaster General Patrick Donahue recently said the Postal Service could be going the way of Greece. That’s if Congress doesn’t pass a restructuring plan to close a multi-billion dollar budget gap. Donahue is proposing cuts to mail handling facilities — those big warehouses where your mail is sorted.

But as Marketplace’s John Dimsdale reports, this kind of postal austerity doesn’t come without a cost to customers.

via With USPS cuts, mail would move more slowly | Marketplace.org.