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"As a part of a nationwide strategy to reduce hours at rural post offices in order to save $500,000 million, the United States Postal Service announced that it will cut down weekday hours at the Maple Street location.In front of a packed house, postmaster Walter Rowland revealed results from a survey about how the community would like to see the schedule altered. Of the 93 surveys submitted, 88 percent voted for a realignment of hours, instead of options such as home delivery, a village post office, and a nearby post office.Rowland stated that cutting the hours down from 8 to 6 is necessary, but how the weekday schedule would be divided up depends on community input.He proposed opening from 7:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., closing for lunch, and then re-opening at 2:15 p.m. and closing at 5:15.Anyone who would be inconvenienced by the new hours could use the larger White River Junction post office on Sykes Mountain Avenue instead.Residents voiced concerns over the proposed hours. Some believed that the hours would not be good for those with careers. Others were opposed to the idea of having to travel to White River Junction for their mail. There were other residents who were happy that the office would not close all together.Rowland said that the USPS will take the community's input into consideration as they come up with a new schedule for the Maple Street location. He said that new hours would not take effect for at least another 6-8 weeks."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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