Sanders credited the letter carriers with helping to stave off plans in recent years by postal service management to make drastic cuts like closing 15,000 post offices and half of the mail processing plants in this country, ending overnight and Saturday deliveries. But even at a time of rising revenues – the U.S. Postal Service has taken in $1.2 billion more in revenue than it spent since the fall of 2012 – Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe still wants to close up to 82 mail processing plants, slow mail services and eliminate up to 15,000 jobs.