Today, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) received a letter from the U.S. Postal Service saying that it has taken action to improve mail delivery in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. The correspondence is in response to a letter Meng sent to U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan in March about poor mail service in the area. The […]
03/24/2016 – The Postal Service is indeed worth saving. That was the consensus of participants in the first field hearing sponsored by A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (AGA), held at Coppin State University in Baltimore on March 23. A panel of community leaders heard testimony from people who discussed what the […]
3/22/16 On Wed., March 23, A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service, a coalition of more than 130 national and local organizations, will convene the first of five hearings in Baltimore, MD. on “U.S. Postal Service: Will Slow Mail Affect U.S. Elections?” Additional hearings will take place later this spring in Cleveland, Greensboro, […]
3/10/16 – Congressman Mike Simpson (R-ID 2nd District) met with local officials in Pocatello on March 10th. Simpson and local officials discussed the rise in number of inmates and jail overcrowding in the county and what a Ted Cruz presidency would mean for local federal facilities. The local officials biggest complaint was slow mail service […]
2/12/16 While local residents have complained of delays with mail service since mail from the 16701 ZIP code was rerouted from Erie to Rochester, N.Y. for processing, the U.S. Postal Service assures the kinks are being worked out. In April of 2015, the Postal Service consolidated mechanized letter and flat processing from Erie into Rochester, […]