mr. herr just mentioned? >> yes, i do, senator. we have been working very diligently to implement much of what he talked about. if you look back in the year 2000, we had 446 mail processing plants. today we have 355. we have taken out over 20% of our mail processing plants. >> how much has your volume dropped? >> our volume has dropped a similar amount. if you look at where we were -- at where we are now obverses last year, our volume is down to 0.6%. 80% of our cost is labor. it is down over 13%. the one area we cannot control our costs is delivery. moving from door to door six days a week is a fixed cost. if the volume declines, that portion cannot be adjusted by the fact that mail volume has declined. we have gone from 5.9 pieces of mail on average to every door since 2000, down to 4.1 pieces. we have managed aggressively to take cost out to offset that loss. i think we have reached a breaking point with the recession. that's why we're seeking to go from toto five-day delivery -- we are see

mr. herr just mentioned? >> yes, i do, senator. we have been working very diligently to implement much of what he talked about. if you look back in the year 2000, we had 446 mail processing plants. today we have 355. we have taken out over 20% of our mail processing plants. >> how much has your volume dropped? >> our volume has dropped a similar amount. if you look at where we were -- at where we are now obverses last year, our volume is down to 0.6%. 80% of our cost is labor. it is down over 13%. the one area we cannot control our costs is delivery. moving from door to door six days a week is a fixed cost. if the volume declines, that portion cannot be adjusted by the fact that mail volume has declined. we have gone from 5.9 pieces of mail on average to every door since 2000, down to 4.1 pieces. we have managed aggressively to take cost out to offset that loss. i think we have reached a breaking point with the recession. that's why we're seeking to go from toto five-day delivery -- we are see

mr. herr just mentioned? >> yes, i do, senator. we have been working very diligently to implement much of what he talked about. if you look back in the year 2000, we had 446 mail processing plants. today we have 355. we have taken out over 20% of our mail processing plants. >> how much has your volume dropped? >> our volume has dropped a similar amount. if you look at where we were -- at where we are now obverses last year, our volume is down to 0.6%. 80% of our cost is labor. it is down over 13%. the one area we cannot control our costs is delivery. moving from door to door six days a week is a fixed cost. if the volume declines, that portion cannot be adjusted by the fact that mail volume has declined. we have gone from 5.9 pieces of mail on average to every door since 2000, down to 4.1 pieces. we have managed aggressively to take cost out to offset that loss. i think we have reached a breaking point with the recession. that's why we're seeking to go from toto five-day delivery -- we are see

mr. herr just mentioned? >> yes, i do, senator. we have been working very diligently to implement much of what he talked about. if you look back in the year 2000, we had 446 mail processing plants. today we have 355. we have taken out over 20% of our mail processing plants. >> how much has your volume dropped? >> our volume has dropped a similar amount. if you look at where we were -- at where we are now obverses last year, our volume is down to 0.6%. 80% of our cost is labor. it is down over 13%. the one area we cannot control our costs is delivery. moving from door to door six days a week is a fixed cost. if the volume declines, that portion cannot be adjusted by the fact that mail volume has declined. we have gone from 5.9 pieces of mail on average to every door since 2000, down to 4.1 pieces. we have managed aggressively to take cost out to offset that loss. i think we have reached a breaking point with the recession. that's why we're seeking to go from toto five-day delivery -- we are see

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