if you want to Save Kentucky Rural Post Offices, Vote for Democratic Senate Candidate Amy McGrath. She supports the US Postal Service and will stand up for US postal workers to ensure that Kentuckians have much-needed rural post offices.
Senator Mitch McConnell has failed to show he cares about the US Postal Service. The “Delivering for America Act” that provides $25 Billion needed COVID-19 relief has been sitting on his desk for months after it was passed in the House.
Amy McGrath supports the US Postal Service and while in Morehead, Kentucky on her tour across the state, she talked about how important the postal service is to rural communities and why rural post offices need to be kept open.
A reporter for LEX 18 News stated:
“Local post offices across the country are shutting down leaving people, specifically in rural communities, with less access to the mail, and Kentucky leads the pack when it comes to that.
“The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting found that 62 post offices have closed down across Kentucky over the last 10 years. That’s the most in the country.”
McGrath said that this should be a big concern for everyone. Not only because of the election but also because many rural Kentucky families depend upon the postal service for things like prescription deliveries.
“McGrath wants Congress to act and help the postal service.”
“The postal service is a service same way the military is a service,” McGrath said. “And I think too many people depend on that service and it’s an important service especially for rural Kentucky.”
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“Kentucky’s rural post offices are threatened. Over the last decade, more post offices have been closed in Kentucky than in any other state, according to data from the U.S. Postal Service. Closures have hit every region, from coal towns in Appalachia to villages in the open fields of the Jackson Purchase.”
“What’s lost is a beloved institution and last public commons in communities with few if any public spaces left.“
““The post office is a gathering place. It’s a hub for local information exchange,” said Ken Tunnell, a Paint Lick resident and sociologist who taught at Eastern Kentucky University.“
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