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Senators press new postmaster general on troubled rural mail service

"You mail a letter in Helena," said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who attended Tuesday’s meeting, "and it really has to go 90 miles out of the way to get to a destination a few blocks away. It gets to be a death spiral."

Slow mail delivery and poor service are hitting rural America hard, and the U.S. Postal Service needs to pay attention, a bipartisan group of senators from rural states told Postmaster General Megan Brennan this week.

Three months into her new role as leader of the financially struggling mail agency, Brennan heard a long list of service complaints from senators from Vermont to North Dakota. They can be summed up this way: The mail is late, and it’s getting later.

By Lisa Rein

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/05/08/senators-press-new-postmaster-general-on-troubled-rural-mail-service/?tid=hpModule_14fd66a0-9199-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239&hpid=z15

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