Action Needed To Improve USPS

Join us in enacting change!

The Jena Times is joining with other newspapers and periodicals, along with the Louisiana Press Association and the National Newspaper Association, asking readers to take a few moments to send a prewritten email or text to Congress to improve our postal service.

Simply click here or text ‘MAIL’ to 52886 and you can send a message to your representative in just a few minutes.

The USPS SERVES US Act is the only bill in Congress that would halt the destructive postage hikes and service cuts, but with all of the controversy in Washington, we need as many people as possible to ask their Representatives to support it. We also need them to contact the USPS to demand that they halt the July rate increase.

With the new Postmaster General not due to start until July, only input from Congress has a chance to block the summer rate hike. Taking action is easy, simply click on the link above or text the information provided.

The former Postmaster General DeJoy is gone, along with his destructive “Delivering for America” plan, but without everyone contacting their representatives, the rate increase that is part of that plan will continue.

The USPS SERVES US Act, recently introduced by Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), is a bill that fixes the flaws in the governance system that is supposed to protect consumers and constrain the USPS, but has failed to do so. This bill would ensure that the USPS cannot raise rates if it failed to control costs. Nor could it raise rates if service quality is not maintained, and it would give the USPS regulator power to halt service cuts. It would also create a dedicated and autonomous customer advocate that mail customers could work with and who could initiate proceedings on behalf of publishers, subscribers and others.

Please help us enact change at the Post Office. Click today and join this movement.

Thank you.

Craig Franklin, Editor, The Jena Times Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal