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have the option of establishing Village Post Offices (VPOs).  A VPO can be established in a local business, can have PO boxes, sell stamps, and ship some packages, and can stay open for as many hours a day as the business running it.  By establishing more VPOs across the country, the USPS hopes to be able to maintain convenient service despite budget cuts and reduced post office hours.
• Postmaster Vacancies Affected First
• With more than 13,000 rural post offices set to be evaluated for reduced hours or closure, the USPS doesn't plan to try to handle every community's case at once.  Instead, Nowacki says, offices where the postmaster has left or retired will be the first to see changes from the POStplan cuts, with the other offices in consideration to follow. 
• The first wave of post offices going through the process of reducing their services will have meetings as soon as the end of October.  At these meetings, USPS officials will answer questions , collect survey letters , and leave surveys for those who do not bring letters, but still wish to vote on how their office will be affected.  Roughly a week afterward, the results of the meeting and survey will be posted at the post office.  The cuts that are chosen will not take place until at least one month after the results are posted, and no changes will be implemented during the holidays

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