U.S. Senate negotiators in Washington, DC reached a deal to save an Eastern Shore mail processing center. The Washington Post reported that the Easton center along with hundreds of other facilities were being targeted to close as the U.S. Postal Service fights for its survival in an era of e-mail. The Easton plant employs 130 workers. U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin put pressure on Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to reconsider a proposal to move the work Easton handles to Delaware. The postal service has proposed shutting down thousands of offices including ten in Annapolis, Baltimore and Towson.