{"id":36936,"date":"2024-12-09T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=36936"},"modified":"2024-12-09T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:11:36","slug":"senator-hassan-presses-postmaster-general-dejoy-about-plan-to-move-mail-processing-out-of-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/12\/09\/senator-hassan-presses-postmaster-general-dejoy-about-plan-to-move-mail-processing-out-of-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Hassan Presses Postmaster General DeJoy about Plan to Move Mail Processing Out of New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2013 12\/5\/24 – Today, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan pressed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about the United States Postal Service (USPS)\u2019s proposed plan to move postal operations from Manchester, New Hampshire to Boston and from White River Junction, Vermont to Hartford, Connecticut. Senator Hassan has repeatedly raised concerns<\/a>\u00a0about these plans, and previously worked with her colleagues to\u00a0temporarily delay<\/a>\u00a0these plans.<\/p>\n

To watch Senator Hassan\u2019s hearing questions, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI want to focus a bit on the ways that you can work to strengthen mail service and I want to also share my concerns about some of the proposals that you have that would make mail service worse in my state, for Granite Staters,\u201d\u00a0Senator Hassan said.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe postal service has a plan to\u00a0move some postal operations from Manchester, New Hampshire to Boston. I oppose the plan because implementation of it will harm service and delay delivery. I also oppose moving operations from White River Junction, Vermont to Hartford, Connecticut because White River Junction serves Granite Staters in the northern part of New Hampshire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Hassan emphasized the potential service impacts of moving postal operations, noting that the Postal Service Inspector General reported that moving postal operations in Virginia and Georgia resulted in \u201can immediate and significant decline in service performance.\u201d\u00a0Senator Hassan then continued<\/strong>, \u201cWe know too that those declines continued for several months, and that these facilities are still struggling to meet their on-time delivery goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Hassan then pressed Postmaster General DeJoy to commit to seeking an analysis from the Postal Regulatory Commission on the impact of the planned service changes and how they will affect Granite Staters. When Postmaster General DeJoy refused to commit to seeking an independent analysis,\u00a0Senator Hassan made clear that she will\u00a0<\/strong>\u201ccontinue to strongly oppose the plans especially in the absence of an independent review of the service impacts in New Hampshire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Hassan also pressed for technological investments to improve employee safety and customer service and addressed service reliability concerns raised by Granite Staters. Senator Hassan has previously led efforts to strengthen the USPS. For instance, in 2022, Senator Hassan and colleagues\u2019\u00a0bipartisan legislation<\/a>\u00a0to strengthen the USPS and improve the agency\u2019s long-term financial stability was signed into law.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2013 12\/5\/24 – Today, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan pressed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about the United States Postal Service (USPS)\u2019s proposed plan to move postal operations from Manchester, New Hampshire to Boston and from White River Junction, Vermont to Hartford, Connecticut. Senator Hassan has repeatedly raised concerns\u00a0about these plans, and previously worked with her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936","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=36936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36937,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36936\/revisions\/36937"}],"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=36936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}