A roundtable discussion on Monday allowed United States Postal Service representatives and stakeholders to connect to address, and potentially fix, issues from delivery to postmarks.
GRAND FORKS — Late and inconsistent mail delivery of newspapers is threatening the future of the industry, the director of the North Dakota Newspaper Association said during a roundtable discussion Monday with representatives from the United States Postal Service.
Cecile Wehrman, the NDNA’s executive director and a weekly newspaper publisher herself, said weekly newspapers especially are susceptible to what she considers poor service from the USPS. Weeklies generally are their community’s sole provider of news, she said, and some either have limited online offerings or none at all. When those newspapers arrive late, it adversely affects their ability to inform community members of important information and events.
