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TODAY’S TOPICS: Nov. 20, 2014

We don’t feel fine: NALC Chief of Staff Jim Sauber spoke at length with Think Progress about the prospects for postal reform before the end of the year: “These are common sense reforms which really shouldn’t be the subject of partisan dispute…[but it’s] hard to imagine the Congress, which doesn’t seem to pass anything anymore, take on a big issue like this before the end of the year.” (Think Progress)

Houston, do we have a problem? The number of dog-bite incidents involving letter carriers declined by 5 percent last year compared with 2012. But for some reason, the number of incidents in Houston was up over the same period. (The Washington Post)