Rutland post office in King's district is targeted for closing

Before everyone carried cell phones 24-7 (not really that long ago), during RAGBRAI when our group of riders would find ourselves separated from one another, we always fell back on one fail-safe plan:   Meet At The Post Office. No matter how tiny the Iowa pass-through town, there was still a Post Office, and the locals always could tell you exactly where it was.  You could leave a car there with the keys in it.  You could put a post-it note on the front door for a lost teammate.

One year, a friend travelled all the way from Wisconsin just to ride the final day with us.  Due to a lightening storm and rain that morning, we didn’t make the time we had planned on and we never did meet up with our friend on the road. When we finally reached the end town of Belleview, there he was, happily chatting with our driver, Sue.  How in the world did he find her in the crowd?  “Well, once I remembered you had to meet up with your driver to get home, I just went to the post office.”

This is not the most dramatic of stories, but when you think about it, your local post office has probably played a bigger part in your life than you would think at first glance.   click here for list of Iowa post offices targeted for closing

Join The Day of Action Next Tuesday To Save America’s Postal Service

On Tuesday, September 27, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (local time),  there will be local actions at the offices of Iowa’s congressional delegation to either thank them for supporting H.R. 1351 to save the U.S. Postal Service or to find out why they have not signed onto this legislation.  click here for list of co-spsonsors

Congressmen Boswell, Braley, Loebsack and Latham have all signed on as co-sponsors to this legislation.  Steve King is the only Iowa congressman who has NOT signed on in support of this bill to save local post offices.

Most of us have the happy task next Tuesday of thanking our representatives for supporting our local post offices.  However, if you live in District 5 soon-to-be-District 4, you have the unpleasant task of  contacting Steve King or showing up at his office (see schedule below) to find out what’s up with that.

District- Address- Time

1     350 W. 6th Street, Dubuque     4:00 to 5:30  (Bruce Braley has sponsored this bill – you can thank him!)
2     Location TBD     (Dave Loebsack has co-sponsored this bill – you can thank him!)
3     300 East Locust, Des Moines     4:00 to 5:30  (Leonard Boswell has co-sponsored this bill- you can thank him!)
4     Location TBD     (Tom Latham has co-sponsored this bill – you can thank him!)
5     40 Pearl St., Council Bluffs     4:00 to 5:30 (Steve King – needs some encouragement)
5     526 Nebraska Street,  Sioux City (Steve King – needs some encouragement)

If you can’t make it to an event, you can still contact Steve King, the only member of Iowa’s congressional delegation who has NOT signed on to this bill to save local post offices. 

Click here for an Online Form or  call his DC office: 202.225.4426 or call one of King’s Iowa offices

Council Bluffs Ph (712) 325-1404
Creston Ph (641) 782-2495
Sioux City Ph (712) 224-4692
Spencer: Ph (712) 580-7754
Storm Lake: Ph (712) 732-4197

For more info about Steve King’s true position on saving your post office postalreporternews.net has this:

“You have to laugh watching King go through the contortions of showing his constituents that he cares about keeping the postal facility in Sioux City.  King, notorious for his controversial remarks about Obama, immigration, and Abu Ghraib, is a proud member of the Tea Party Caucus and presumably supports the Postal Reform Act being advanced by fellow Tea Partyers Dennis Ross and Darryl Issa — a bill that would decimate the Postal Service, close thousands of post offices, and consolidate hundreds of processing plants like the one in Sioux City.”

Here’s the event description from saveamericaspostalservice.org/

During these informational rallies, we will visit the home office of each member of the House of Representatives.

We will thank those members who have signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 1351, a bill that addresses the financial crisis facing the Postal Service.

And we will encourage those who have NOT signed as co-sponsors of H.R. 1351 to do so.

You can also sign the petition   and   check here for updated information