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Maine AG Joins Other States In Suit Challenging Controversial USPS Changes

By • Aug 21, 2020
Maine Public

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey, along with several other states' attorneys general, will push ahead with a lawsuit challenging a complement of changes taking place at the U.S. Postal Service.

Maine Postal Workers' Union Leaders Call On U.S. Postmaster To Permanently Reverse Recent Changes

By • Aug 20, 2020
Robert F. Bukaty / Associated Press

The unions representing mail carriers and postal workers in Maine are calling for U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to permanently reverse recent changes which they say have created a rash of mail delays.

Mail Delays Could Hurt The Census, Too

By • Aug 20, 2020

Updated at 12:18 p.m. ET Saturday

Under pressure from the Trump administration to deliver 2020 census results by the end of this year, the U.S. Census Bureau has set a cutoff date for receiving paper forms for the once-a-decade head count, NPR has learned.

Delivery Delays Mean Shipments Of Chicks Are Dead When They Reach Their Destination

By • Aug 19, 2020

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree says Mainers have been losing shipments of live chicks because of delivery delays by the postal service.

House Democrats Summon Postal Leaders To Hearing On Mail Delays

By Aamer Madhani and Matthew Daly - AP • Aug 16, 2020
Ted S. Warren / AP Images

The Democratic-run House on Sunday demanded that leaders of the U.S. Postal Service testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays as concerns grow that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the agency during the coronavirus pandemic while states expand mail-in voting options for the November presidential election.

Letter Written in Maine 83 Years Ago Delivered

By • Jul 2, 2014

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) _ A letter written by a Maine school teacher in 1931 to her mother 150 miles away has finally been delivered...83 years later.

Twenty-three-year-old Miriam McMichael sent the nine-page letter from Houlton to Dollena McMichael in Pittsfield. Both women have since died.