Lorraine Rumore has contributed the following:    ----------------------------------------  Politics News Alert: U.S. Postal Service seeks to withdraw employees from  existing federal health and retirement plans  August 11, 2011 4:47:25 PM  ----------------------------------------    The financially troubled U.S. Postal Service is seeking to reduce its workforce  by 20 percent (120,000 employees), through layoffs now prohibited by union contracts, and  to withdraw its employees from existing health and retirement plans, instead  creating its own benefit programs specifically for postal employees. If approved  by Congress, the changes could have major ramifications for federal workers  across the government. 

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