Proposal from Hardin County asks USPS to move mail sorting out of Memphis
A resolution urging the U.S. Postal Service to do a better job is on the Hardin County Commission’s upcoming agenda.
The proposed resolution contends that since the relocation of USPS mail processing operations from Jackson to Memphis in 2012, “local first class mail service in Hardin County has significantly declined and become unreliable.”
Hardin County Mayor Kevin Davis said Tuesday that he can no longer depend on the mail service for timely delivery.
“When you have to hand deliver the county commissioners’ agenda packets, that’s sad,” he said.
According to the resolution, “it often takes as much as a week or more for local mail to be delivered, creating undue hardship for residents and businesses that rely on USPS to deliver bill payments, medicine, pay checks and other vitally important mail.”
The resolution, which is similar to resolutions already passed by some other counties in west Tennessee, requests that the USPS return mail processing operations from Memphis to Jackson.
It also asks Hardin County’s federal representation, Congressman David Kustoff and U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, to “work diligently” toward that goal.
The Hardin County Commission has a public study session meeting today (Thursday) at 6:30 p.m. at the county courthouse at which the proposed resolution is expected to be discussed.
A vote on the matter could be held at the regular monthly business meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19.
