OTHER NEWS - Feb. 7, 1996
Times Staff and Wire Reports
Higher postal rates helped boost the U.S. Postal Service’s net income for its first fiscal quarter to a record $1.2 billion from $228 million during the same period a year earlier. . . . Samsonite Corp. said it will consolidate some of its U.S. manufacturing facilities, fire 137 workers and take a $2.4-million charge in its fiscal fourth quarter.
