Minot – Frustrations with late or even lost mail have led a county commissioner to take his concerns to Washington D.C.

Ward County Commissioner Alan Walter says Minot and surrounding areas were dealt a bad hand when the U.S. Postal Service moved some of Minot’s mail processing to Bismarck back in 2015.

According to a statement from the United States Postal Service, all local mail destined to zip codes beginning with 587 and 588 IS processed at the Minot post office.

However, some people say, in their experience, that hasn’t always been the case.

“It’s frustrating as heck that we have that kind of service in this community,” Walter said.

He says people shouldn’t have to deal with the delay of having Minot-area mail sent all the way to Bismarck and back.

“We got mail delivered to the county here that some of it was two years old and laying around some place for two years.” Read more