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The U.S. Postal Service said on Thursday it would cut 7,500 jobs and close seven district offices and 2,000 post offices as it handles less mail and faces greater staff costs.

Two women postal workers were fatally shot Monday morning in a post office in Henning, Tennessee, about 50 miles northeast of Memphis, a dispatcher for the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department said.

The Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for the 2009 fiscal year, about $1 billion more than the previous year.

The price of first-class stamps will not go up next year. The Postal Service has been implementing rate increases annually in ...