FILE - This Sept. 19, 2013 file photo shows Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces good-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
FILE - This March 6, 2013 file photo shows a Staples office supply store Miami. The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces good-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers. (AP Photo/ Lynne Sladky, File)
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Traffic is slow at a Staples office supply store in Miami. Staples is speeding up the closure of more than a dozen U.S. stores and plans to close 45 stores in Europe.
Form Los Angeles Laker Jerry West, NBA commissioner David Stern, Miami Heat president Pat Riley, Lakers owner Jerry Buss and Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak look at the bronze statue of West during its unveiling ceremony outside Staples Center in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
In this photograph taken Aug. 1, 2010, back-to-school shoppers crowd the aisles at a Staples store in Little Rock, Ark. The pace of consumer spending stalled in June and personal incomes failed to increase, further evidence that the economy slowed significantly in the spring. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
In this photograph take July 8, 2010, a computer for less is dispalyed at a Staples in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, July 8, 2010. Consumer prices fell for the third straight month, providing some bargains to American shoppers.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)