Some Colorado towns are preparing to sue to make the post office prioritize mail over last-mile deliveries for Amazon.
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Buena Vista residents had to pay $166 to get mail. Now, the USPS says it will deliver for free.
Most Colorado communities have at least one way for residents to get their mail for free. But in Buena Vista, residents have for years had no option but to pay.
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“A joke.” “TERRIBLE.” “Insane!!!”: Want mail in Buena Vista? That will be $134.
BUENA VISTA — Even in these politically divided times, one topic has united this 3,000-person town in Colorado’s high country: frustration with the local U.S. Postal Service office. Residents complain that prescriptions are lost. Bills come late. Mail goes to the wrong post office box, or is inexplicably returned to the sender. “A joke.” “TERRIBLE.” […]
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Colorado’s tiny mountain post offices are hamstrung — for the second straight holiday season
Crested Butte Mayor Jim Schmidt is getting that anxious feeling again when he makes his daily trek to the post office. A yellow slip in his post office box usually means a long wait in a line to retrieve a package. Just like last year, the line sometimes wraps around the outside of this town’s […]
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A test of Colorado mail finds delivery is timely — most of the time
By Sandra Fish, CoLab and Justin Wingerter, The Denver Post Reports of slower mail delivery times nationally and across Colorado since mid-summer are causing concern as more voters than ever plan to vote by mail in the Nov. 3 election, to avoid coronavirus exposure. But an unscientific experiment by the Colorado News Collaborative over the […]
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Postal Service says it has already delivered to Coloradans 75% of its flyers containing incorrect mail-in voting information
The U.S. Postal Service on Sunday unsuccessfully asked a federal judge in Colorado to reconsider an order barring it from continuing to distribute a mailer that the state says contains incorrect information about Colorado’s mail-in voting system. The agency says it has already delivered 75% of the flyers it planned to distribute to Coloradans. Colorado […]
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Colorado joins multi-state lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service
Colorado joined several other states in filing a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Postal Service to ensure the agency isn’t weakened ahead of the November election. The decision comes a day after Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, said he was in talks with other attorneys general about how to respond to concerns […]
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Colorado attorney general in discussions with other states about legal action to protect U.S. Postal Service
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser says he is in discussions with colleagues in other states about whether to take legal action to preserve the U.S. Postal Service — and, more broadly, people’s right to vote — ahead of the November election. The talks come as national fears over the Trump administration’s degradation of the Postal […]
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Denver health officials order coronavirus closure of U.S. Postal Service facility serving millions in Colorado, Wyoming
Denver health officials have ordered the closure of a United States Postal Service distribution center that handles all mail for Colorado and Wyoming, saying the facility has multiple confirmed cases of the coronavirus among its employees. KUSA-TV reports state health officials confirmed five workers have tested positive for the virus at the facility that employs about 1,800. […]
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The 25 most read Colorado Sun stories of 2019
These are the 25 Colorado Sun stories that received the most readership in 2019. They touch on a wide variety of issues and topic areas, from reporter Jason Blevins’ investigation into Backcountry.com, to a look at production of Neil Young’s new album and persistent coverage of Colorado’s deadly 2018-19 avalanche season. Backcountry.com sues anyone who […]