GRAND FORKS – The National Newspaper Association’s move late last month to forward a series of complaints to the Postal Regulatory Commission will hopefully add impact to calls from the association and elsewhere for postal reform, the head of the North Dakota Newspaper Association said.
Cecile Wehrman, executive director of the NDNA, said the postal concerns are impacting not just newspaper readers in North Dakota, but nationwide
The hope is that the national association’s recent effort – announced Friday – will help, she said.
“I think it’s fair to say the postal complaints are reaching a fever pitch,” she said in a Monday email to the state’s newspaper leaders.
In a subsequent interview, she said, “I don’t know how many more people can holler and how much louder, but I hope it helps.”
On Friday, National Newspaper Association Executive Director Lynne Lance issued a statement that noted the NNA “delivered letters from more than 200 newspaper titles to the Postal Regulatory Commission, complaining about inadequate mail delivery and escalating postage rates.”