Grange view cited in editorial regarding rural post offices

By NEMS Daily Journal

The U.S. Postal Service announced this week it has canceled plans to close nearly 3,850 mostly rural post offices nationwide because of community and congressional pressure, but it said many of those facilities face drastically reduced service hours and minimal staffing.

Several Northeast Mississippi post offices had been on the closure list; dozens in the region are on an hours reduction list.

The cancellation of the closures nationwide is backed by many in Congress, including Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, who joined 43 colleagues in urging a moratorium on the closures.

Dozens were on the original hit list in Mississippi. Tupelo’s mail processing center had been slated for closure and movement to Grenada, but an earlier moratorium spared that move.