” Critics such as Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, Massachusetts Representatives Stephen F. Passed at the height of Bush-era enthusiasm for privatization for Social Security, the bill required the Postal Service to pre-fund its pension and retiree health benefits for current and future workers over 10 years. An article from April on the City Lab website says, “While the modern history of the USPS as an independent executive branch agency dates back to the 1970s, its money troubles can be largely traced to a 2006 law called the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.
The United States Postal Service has been under attack from anti-government forces for years. As the highly respected retired Oregonian reporter Harry Bodine recently quipped to me “If the Post Office was good enough for Benjamin Franklin, it is good enough for me.” Impossible to get a new full-service Post Office? While acknowledging the many challenges the USPS faces and its need for restructuring, the legislative priorities of the Grange are steadfast in supporting this most essential of American institutions. In its May 2020 newsletter, National Grange Legislative Director Burton Eller makes a plea for preserving the USPS with an emphasis on the value of mail delivery for rural residents, providing lobbying advice for anyone who values mail and wants to weigh in. Established in 1867, the National Grange, a nonpartisan, nondenominational, nonprofit fraternal organization, has a long and storied history in supporting rural mail delivery by the original US Post Office (now named the US Postal Service) and considers this one of their key issues of longstanding equitability and access for rural Americans.įeaturing the USPS prominently in its 2020 policy update, Grange leadership makes a strong case for preserving this crucial American institution along with the drastic need for increased rural healthcare and other critical issues for farmers.
#Usps mailbox near me free
In the early 1900’s after decades of lobbying, the Grange along with other rural and farm groups, succeeded in convincing Congress to establish free rural mail delivery for the entire USA. Leedy Grange member Bruce Bartlett shares this information. The UPS Store in the Peterkort Center is an approved USPS postal provider.Ī notepad from 1909 used by a member of Leedy Grange,įrom the Cedar Mill Historical Society collection. There are a couple of commercial mailing stores that will accept mail for USPS: Mailboxes & More in the “triangle center” on Barnes accepts USPS mail and packages. Ever since Signature NW closed Bales Thriftway and its associated Contract Post Office, people have been struggling to find ways to mail packages and do other postal business. There’s a bigger problem however, with the lack of facilities in our area. Letters requesting more “blue collection boxes” can be mailed toīeaverton, OR 97005-2869. Several of the ones listed on the post office website did not exist, but one of our volunteer editors cruised the area and confirmed locations and updated information.
We have compiled a list of available boxes, below. In any case, there should be more of the blue collection boxes in our neighborhoods.
From the Postal Service map of collection
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