USPS News : Reader's View: Postal workers have always given excellent service

"Snail mail.” I thoroughly dislike this modern reference to the U.S. Postal Service. Postal employees have served my needs for 65-plus years. The service has been excellent, despite a Congress of the United States that pilfered its funds and refuses now to support one of the longest-standing services in our nation. If one-10th of the money spent on wars in the last 10 years had been placed instead in the postal service, it would be solvent.

 

But now the postal service has to shrink. Duties performed by the postal distribution center in Duluth are now in the Twin Cities metro area. Those of us long-served by Duluth’s center may have to wait extra days now for our mail. I can mail a letter to my dentist in Eveleth from my home in Zim, 17 miles away, and expect that he won’t get it for three or more days. I can send a letter to Tucson, Ariz., and expect it’ll be received in two or three days. Something is wrong.

I reject the term “snail mail,” but Uncle Sam made it so.

 

I purchased “forever” stamps, never realizing how prophetic they were.

 

Nice work, Uncle Sam. Send billions to aid the rest of the world but not enough for the U.S. Postal Service.

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