Plan to Tighten USPS Budget Has Rural Residents Concerned

Published on May 22, 2024

After boldly predicting that it would at least break even in 2023, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) lost $6.5 billion. So, it should come as no surprise that the USPS is looking at changing the way it delivers mail in 2024. Unfortunately, for some rural communities, those changes could drastically affect the speed at which they receive their mail. In a strategic move called “Delivering to America,” the $40 billion plan aims to upgrade and improve USPS processing, transportation, and delivery. However, some of those upgrades are not going over well with several U.S. rural communities. Some of the more controversial decisions include moving the Iron Mountain Processing Center in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 100 miles away to Green Bay, Wisconsin, the Grand Junction, Colorado processing center 244 miles away to Denver and shifting the Sioux Falls, South Dakota Facility, 184 miles away to Omaha, Nebraska....

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