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We've all read about or experienced the problems recently with mail service in the Bozeman area. Staffing shortages have been affecting mail sorting and delivery but hopefully this week's USPS job fair will help fix the issue.

Montana's June 2 primary will be conducted by mail in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The ballots will be mailed out on May 8.

U.S. Mail couriers may travel through snow, rain and “gloom of night” to get the mail into Montana, but they won’t be traveling through the smoke and flames in Seeley Lake this week.

Under a cost-saving plan by the U.S. Postal Service, millions of Americans accustomed to getting their mail delivered to their doors will have to trek to the curb and residents of new homes will use neighborhood mailbox clusters, the agency said Tuesday...

Email and other electronic transactions have caused a dramatic drop in the volume of snail-mail and its associated revenues — so much so that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has proposed eliminating Saturday mail delivery. It’s a move that could save the United States Postal Service as much as $3.1 billion a year.

As internet and other forms of communication are replacing traditional mail, USPS employees are seeing the ramifications. While the USPS idea for consolidation across Montana will save over $500,000 a year, the agency will need to end 15 Montanan's jobs.