The Fate Of Rural Post Offices

(July 7, 2014) What’s the future of rural postal services? Locations across the country have closed their doors or cut their hours due to financial struggles for the United States Postal Service. What’s causing the change? With new technology like social media and text messaging, the need for the postal service isn’t what it used…

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Tornado Devastates Local Nebraska Community including Pilger Post Office

Postal employees in Pilger, NE, continued to deliver the mail last week after two tornadoes tore through the small farming community. On June 16, the tornadoes damaged or destroyed three-quarters of the town’s buildings, including the Pilger Post Office. One employee’s house was significantly damaged. Two employees were inside the Post Office when the tornadoes hit…

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USPS – Going Down the Line | Dan Buhrdorf for US Senate

(05/17/2014) Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution gives Congress the power “To establish Post Offices and post Roads.” This makes the US Post Office one of the few government agencies mentioned in the Constitution. In a time of “buffet-style pick and choose” allegiance to the Constitution, candidates would do well to think on…

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