USPS to potentially make changes
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is exploring options that would involve picking up outgoing mail from rural post offices once in the morning rather than twice a day. They are also thinking about moving processing from Grand Junction to Denver.
USPS Union Representative Shane McDonnell told WesternSlopeNow he’s talked to multiple local businesses, and they say if the postal service moves to one pickup a day, they will have to explore other options that do not include using the postal service.
McDonnell also says if processing moves from Grand Junction to Denver, it could cause multiple day delays.
“The fact that we have to go over two mountain passes, several canyons with storms, construction, mudslides, everything else in the I-70 corridor it doesn’t make any sense to transfer the mail 255 miles back and forth.”
It could also cause issues for the presidential election. If ballots are sent to Denver for processing and don’t make it back to Grand Junction in time, they won’t be counted.
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