The Postal Service successfully removed more than $6 billion in costs, including:

• Cutting 115 million work hours, the equivalent of 65,000 positions.
• Closing six district administrative offices.
• Adjusting carrier routes to reflect diminished volume and eliminating nearly 12,000 carrier routes.
• Instituting a nationwide hiring freeze.
• Reducing authorized staffing levels at national and regional offices by 15 percent.
• Selling unused and underutilized postal facilities.
• Adjusting Post Office hours to better reflect customer use.
• Consolidating mail processing operations.
• Halting construction of new postal facilities.
• Freezing salaries of all Postal Service officers and executives.