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RECIPE INSIDE! JUNE 16, 2022
WILLISTON’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1985
Congress acts on postal problems
into their local post office’s operations. It requires the Postal Service to create a website updated weekly that shows whether local post offices are meeting their six-day-aBY JASON STARR week delivery standard. The tool Observer staff will allow “comparisons of perforThe postal delivery problems mance information … to perforthat have resurfaced in Williston mance information from previous in recent weeks have plagued com- time periods to facilitate identimunities nationwide for nearly two fication of performance trends,” years — and have prompted an act the Act states. “The website shall include … functionality to enable of Congress. Signed into law in April, the a user to search for performance Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 information by street address, zip has a dual purpose of bringing the code or post office box.” The postal serU.S. Post Office vice is required to closer to financial “I know the post solicit public input sustainability and on the design of the office is having making the agenwebsite and maincy more transparits problems with tain a public feedent and accountback tool to ensure staffing, but for able to the public. the website is usable “We’ve seen a it to go on like and understandable. real escalation in It’s not clear when this for this long complaints over the website will be the past year,” is just not right.” published. Rep. Peter Welch George Stief “It’s a tool we said. “It’s been Williston hope will help, and incredibly frusI’ll be monitoring trating for peoit,” Welch said. ple.” Residents, of course, don’t need Williston retiree George Stief to go online to know that mail desaid nearly a week passed without livery is falling short of standards. mail delivery recently in the Taft Farms senior community. On top Their empty mailboxes tell them of that disappointment is a lack that. “I know the post office is havof communication from the post ing its problems with staffing, but office about the extent of the issue for it to go on like this for this and what to expect in the future. long is just not right,” said Strief. “I have not heard anything “Someone — or a number of peofrom anybody official,” Stief said. ple — are just plain dropping the “For people such as myself who ball.” are retired and depend on the mail The low rate of unemployment for medical deliveries and other — which decreased to 2.5 percent important necessities, to not hear in the most recent report from the anything is just inexcusable.” Vermont Department of Labor — The Postal Service Reform Act has hampered the Williston Post creates a tool to give frustrated see USPS page 24 postal patrons like Stief a window
WWW.WILLISTONOBSERVER.COM
Law intends to increase accountability, transparency at USPS
Glad grads
CVU Principal Adam Bunting, above, welcomes family, friends and students to the 58th Commencement Exercise of Champlain Valley Union High School on Friday afternoon at UVM’s Patrick Gym. Graduating senior Lindsay Beer, left, accepts congratulations from Principal Bunting. Below, CVU Senior speaker Luke Leonard addresses the assembly. (More photos page 4.) OBSERVER PHOTOS BY AL FREY
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