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Newspaper/postal service partnership on the brink

Cecile Wehrman, Executive Director for the North Dakota Newspaper Association reached out to me late in the week prior and urged me to attend. She cited the importance of the meeting, which we viewed as an opportunity for us to have our voices heard and to advocate for better service on behalf of our readers. I looked forward to a productive discussion, and a chance to introduce myself to people in the Postal Service and open a dialogue about what we can do to improve delivery in our rural places.

It’s no secret that mail delivery to our small communities has gotten less reliable lately, as readers of this newspaper have waited as much as a week to receive their copy in the mail. Readers in other parts of the country have gone weeks without receiving their copy of the Independent, and then receive three or four issues in their mailbox at the same time.

We’ve even had entire print runs go missing for days, this happening with both the Independent and Transcript in the past year. For readers of the Independent, it happened just a few weeks ago.

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