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People pay bills online. the other thing is we are required to refund retiree health benefits to the tune of $5.5 billion a year. >> bill: all right. paying $3 billion a year in retirement health pensions, not health but pensions and 8 billion in health benefits for whopping total we saw it in wisconsin. we saw it in ohio. and now we are seeing it with the post office. i think the post office as we know it is going to vanish in the next five years. >> it should vanish because of the other reason the post master general spoke about they're obsolete. we have email. we don't need them. they are n...

Agency from going bankrupt. >> we have to do is take a look at what we can take out of this organization from a cost standpoint because we have lost volume. and we have lost revenue. and you just can't sit back and wait. you have got to act on these things. we have got to go $20 billion. we are going to do that to keep ourself financially healthy. we don't take any tax money. we don't want any tax money. we want to do this just the way any other business would. >> shepard: the expected changes include the closure of more than half the 461 mail processing centers across the country that would s...

afghanistan. they won't say whether it's the type that contains highly classified information. security experts say if it is that drone, the u.s. military has lost a lot. >> the important point to take away here is that the iranians now have a very sensitive piece of american military technology in their hands. i hope that there's a self-destruct button attached to it. after months of bloody crack jouns against protesters, syria now says it will let observers into the country to monitor what is going on but only if the arab league agrees to drop sanctions against syria. the u.n. sa...

his own white house run, and who now plans to host a republican debate, after christmas. then there is ex-candidate herman cain whose endorsement could go to gingrich eventually. though he now says he's going to take his time. stay with us, we'll bring you those comments live at 1:45 eastern time. also, president obama, we are told, is going to have some sort of statement or briefing in the briefing room of the white house. the subject is going to be taxes. a lot of talk of that up on capitol hill. we'll hear what the president has to say this hour. and what does first class me...

Them. this post office has already consolidated with two others. >> actually, the last post office around here for a while. one burnt down and another closed down. >> reporter: he knows it would be tough for some people to go farther for the mail. >> come here every day. >> reporter: this post office was built a year before pearl harbor and has been closed since 2008, yet people were still putting mail in the lobby slot where it dropped to the floor on the other side. >> reporter: community leaders are worried if their post office closed, they would lose a sense of community unless the post of...