{"id":38785,"date":"2025-12-17T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=38785"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:36:38","slug":"u-s-senators-send-bipartisan-letter-urging-postmaster-general-to-address-chronic-postal-delays-across-minnesota-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/12\/17\/u-s-senators-send-bipartisan-letter-urging-postmaster-general-to-address-chronic-postal-delays-across-minnesota-north-dakota\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senators Send Bipartisan Letter Urging Postmaster General to Address Chronic Postal Delays Across Minnesota, North Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 12\/16\/25 – Yesterday, U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-MN), John Hoeven (R-ND), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) urged the Postmaster General to take action to improve postal services in the Minnesota-North Dakota Postal District. As the holiday season continues and the volume of mail increases, it\u2019s especially important to ensure there aren\u2019t delivery delays across the two states.\u00a0 \u201cAs our constituents prepare for the busy holiday season, we urge you to take actions to ensure that any performance issues are resolved in a timely manner so that Minnesotans and North Dakotans do not experience significant service disruptions this winter,\u201d wrote the Senators.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFor Minnesotans and North Dakotans, the Postal Service is an essential lifeline, delivering prescriptions, pay checks, and messages from loved ones.\u00a0 During the holiday season, it is even more essential.\u00a0 Any service disruptions within the MN-ND District create real consequences for the people who rely on your services, and as Postmaster General, we look to you to provide timely action to address these critical issues,\u201d they concluded.\u00a0\u00a0 You can read full text of the letter here or below.\u00a0\u00a0 Dear Postmaster General Steiner,\u00a0 We write to highlight the importance of timely and reliable mail delivery within the United States Postal Service\u2019s (USPS) Minnesota-North Dakota District, especially during this peak holiday season.\u00a0 As our constituents prepare for the busy holiday season, we urge you to take actions to ensure that any performance issues are resolved in a timely manner so that Minnesotans and North Dakotans do not experience significant service disruptions this winter.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 12\/16\/25 – Yesterday, U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-MN), John Hoeven (R-ND), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) urged the Postmaster General to take action to improve postal services in the Minnesota-North Dakota Postal District. As the holiday season continues and the volume of mail increases, it\u2019s especially important to ensure there […]<\/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-38785","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\/38785","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=38785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38786,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38785\/revisions\/38786"}],"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=38785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}