by RICK DANLEY // February 21, 2015
Grumbling about the Postal Service is probably as old as the service itself. But try to take away a small town’s post office and watch how swiftly its residents embrace it.
In May 2012, facing a desperate headwind — in the form of multi-billion dollar shortfalls — the United States Postal Service introduced austerity measures into the rural postal system under a program called “Post Plan.” The driving idea behind Post Plan was…
This article first appeared in The Iola Register on February 21, 2015.