{"id":35393,"date":"2024-05-09T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=35393"},"modified":"2024-05-09T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:20:37","slug":"bipartisan-letter-calls-on-usps-to-pause-delivery-network-changes-protect-local-mail-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/05\/09\/bipartisan-letter-calls-on-usps-to-pause-delivery-network-changes-protect-local-mail-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Letter Calls on USPS to Pause Delivery Network Changes, Protect Local Mail Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2013 5\/8\/24 – The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced its intention to implement further changes to its processing and delivery network under the \u201cDelivering for America\u201d plan. U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and their colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, requesting the agency pause its changes until it studies the impacts of its full plan and restore services in areas where changes have been implemented.<\/p>\n

The proposed plan issued by the USPS suggests moving mail processing further away from local communities by transferring operations out of local facilities and into more distant hubs. The letter notes the agency\u2019s plan will cause critical delays for mail in local communities across the nation, including Bismarck and Grand Forks, North Dakota.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on USPS to pause all changes, pending a full study of this plan by its regulator. While USPS claims these changes overall will improve service while reducing costs, there is evidence to the contrary in locations where USPS\u00a0has implemented changes so far,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>wrote the senators.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u201cUSPS\u00a0must stop implementation, restore service in those areas where changes were implemented, and fully understand the nationwide effects of its plan on service and communities.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Postal Service\u2019s primary responsibility is to provide timely and reliable delivery to every community across the nation,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>the senators continued.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWhile USPS must continue adapting as an agency to remain stable and serve the public\u2019s current needs, it must proceed with caution and understand the implications of its plans in order to protect mail delivery for all communities.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Additional cosigners include U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), John Barrasso (R-WY), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Steve Daines (R-MT), Kyrsten Sinema, (I-AZ), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Angus King (I-ME), John Hoeven (R-ND), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Jon Tester (D-MT), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).<\/p>\n

Senator Cramer has long supported efforts to address delayed mail delivery in North Dakota and throughout the country. \u00a0Earlier this year, the delegation\u00a0pressed<\/a>\u00a0the USPS\u00a0Inspector General (IG) to include\u00a0North Dakota communities in its postal audit of the Minnesota-North Dakota District. The delegation has also\u00a0secured<\/a>\u00a0a commitment from the IG to audit postal facilities in Dickinson, Grand Forks, and Fargo, which will be included in the full district audit report to be released in May.<\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for the letter.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2013 5\/8\/24 – The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced its intention to implement further changes to its processing and delivery network under the \u201cDelivering for America\u201d plan. U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and their colleagues in sending a letter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35394,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393\/revisions\/35394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}