(BIG SANDY, Mont.) – Senator Jon Tester this week won approval for his measure to require the government to determine how reductions in rural mail delivery standards are affecting Montana communities.
The Postal Service last year cut certain delivery programs in rural states like Montana, claiming the change would save the agency money and not hurt delivery service standards. But there have been no studies to back up the Postal Service’s claims – or to determine how communities in rural America are affected by the change.
Tester’s measure will require the government’s top watchdog to get to the bottom of the issue. Tester sits on the Senate’s Appropriations Committee, which approved his amendment unanimously.
“Folks in rural American rely on timely and efficient postal service for everything from medicines to election ballots,” Tester said. “This measure will take a close look at how cuts to rural mail service are affecting Montanans and make it clear that the Postal Service is trying to balance its books on the backs of rural communities.”
Tester, a member of the Senate panel that oversees the Postal Service, supports comprehensive, bipartisan legislation that will put the Postal Service on sound financial footing while preserving timely and efficient mail service in rural Montana.
Fellow Montana Senator Max Baucus is also a supporter of that measure.
Tester also recently criticized the Postal Service’s attempt to break the law and cut Saturday mail delivery, before helping to force the agency to backtrack on its decision.
Tester’s measure requiring a study of reductions to rural mail service standards is now part of a Senate funding bill.
Follow in the foot steps of FedEx 🙂 4 weeks pay for every year of service,up to two years pay 🙂 Parting the Red Sea 101.
Leon has awoken the spirit of the low information thinker…remember Leon:
“The turtle must stick his neck out”.
Your shell is already in the middle of the highway.
Leon Leon likes his money
He makes a lot they say
Spend his days counting
In a garage by the motorway
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day
When the New York Times said God is dead
And the war’s begun
Alvin Tostig has a son today
And he shall be Leon
And he shall be a Issa man
And he shall be Leon
In tradition with the Issa plan
And he shall be Leon
And he shall be a Issa man
He shall be Leon
Leon sells cartoon balloons in town
His family business thrives
Issa blows up balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly
And Issa,he wants to go to Venus
Leaving Leon far behind
Take a balloon and go sailing
While the post office waste away
Leon you obviously don’t live in a rural area….get a clue before you speak
Leon, just where are you from? I live in rural America, and it is affecting us negatively every day. Please come visit, as right now our AT&T tower is having problems and you cannot make cell call, receive cell calls and you can’t even reach a Starbucks by cell. It’s 60 miles to any type of shopping. We do have a grocery store and a gas station, but they sure don’t offer any gourmet coffee. Come out of the clouds!!!
Who the hell are YOU Leon ????????????
Politics in action. Reductions to rural mail service
standards affects no rural customer negatively. Could possibly affect receiving a GEICO discount by receiving bulk junk business mail a day later. The benefits outweigh any negative factors as USPS provides services that were needed in the 20th century but not in the 21st century as advances in communication technology has reduced the need to purchase a stamp and await the postal service to deliver to a physical address. Folks IN RURAL America NO LONGER DEPEND ON A ROLLING STORE, GENERAL STORE,OR A COMMUNITY POST OFFICE AS TIME HAS ERASED PRIMITIVE NEEDS OF 20TH CENTURY AMERICANS. NEED TO PUT A STARBUCKS TO ATTRACT CUSTOMER TO COME AS A CUSTOMER TO A POST OFFICE.