USPS facing backlash on recent decisions affecting mail delivery
Kristen Jones
Farmer Staff Writer
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) has joined with two other U.S. senators to introduce a bipartisan act to block the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing rate increases unless performance improves.
There has been an increase in customer complaints concerning mail delivery, and McKenzie County has been particularly hard hit.
The Deliver for Democracy Act would require “USPS to either achieve at least a 95 percent on-time delivery rate for periodicals or an improvement of at least two percentage points to unlock its 2 percent surcharge authority for that class of mail; direct the USPS to annually report to the Postal Regulatory Commission on its progress in including on-time delivery data for newspapers in its periodical service performance measurement; and Instruct the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study and submit a report to Congress on options for alternate USPS pricing schemes to improve the financial position of periodicals,” stated a press release published by Cramer’s office.
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