Nordland Post Office 98358

www.marrowstone.info/postoffice

Help me make this web page a clearing house for information and action items that we can use to:

1. keep our 98358 Zip Code,

2. keep the Post Office here and

3. keep the current hours.

Send me (hphubbard@gmail.com) any information you want me to add to this web page.

Our Post Office

• Click here to view the services that our USPS and our Post Office offers.

  • Use our PO rather than Port Hadlock or Chimicum

  • Use USPS rather than UPS or FedEx, if you can, to send AND receive your mail/packages.

4/5/13 - Senate Bill

1. Sen. Manchin Co-sponsors Postal Service Protection Act

What's next? (Post 3/5 meeting)

• • Our newest petition is set up to protest the prefunding of retiree healthcare benefits in the postal service. The post office is required by Congress to prefund 75 years of retiree healthcare benefits in a 10 year window at $5.5 billion dollars a year. They are the only business or government agency who is required to do this. All financial figures released by the postal service include this obligation by Congress in them. So the postal service financial crisis is a manufactured crisis. One manufactured by Congress.

    • Please share and sign the petition below.

    • http://signon.org/sign/end-the-prefunding-of?mailing_id=10611&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=4388466

  • Click here to view and sign other SignOn.org petitions about the Post Office

  • Click here to view PDN article 3/7/2013 "Marrowstone residents turn out to support post office in Nordland"

• Click here to view the planning document for what is next.

3/5/13 - Post Office Meeting Timeline

• • Click here to view the 72 page ADVISORY OPINION ON POST OFFICE STRUCTURE PLAN (PDF)

• Click here to view the timeline for the meeting.

Photos and videos

• Click here to view the 3/7/13 - KIRO TV segment

• If you will taking photos or videos at the meeting and will be uploading them to a Cloud like Picasa or Flickr, send me the link(s) and I will post them here.

2/27/13

• Leader article

2/22/13 -Dan's Action Plan

• Click here to read Dan's (Powell's) Action Plan.

Post Office Facebook page

• Nordland Post Office 98358 - Save our Service Facebook (FB) page

• "Likes"

  • 3/2 - 75

  • 3/1 - 69; 2/24 (24 - 39 in one afternoon because of this Island Net post)

2/20/13 Meeting at the Nordland Garden Club

Prep for March 5th

We need you at the March 5th meeting at 3 pm at the store. See photo ->

Committees

Click the links below to learn about the committee and join it.

Petition

• Chair: Pete Hubbard - 385-0105

  • There are conflicting numbers for the MI Population: 844 and 897. So I'll round it up to 900. (More) The Postal Service considers 60% of the Island population to be a strong indicator of preference. 60% of 900 = 540. Thus, we need to get at least 540 signatures on the petition. We are finding about 5% are off-island addresses and there may be duplicates. We have a plan to get the exact number.)

Petition Statistics

• • I will update these numbers periodically. (Post)

  • 3/4 - REVISED FINAL TALLY: 26 pages of the petition = 593 signatures (including 41 proxies) less (7 duplicates and 65 off-island) equal 521 net valid. 59.4% of 877 Islanders signed the petition.

    • 3/4 - FINAL TALLY: 26 pages of petitions = 593 signatures (including 41 proxies) less (7 duplicates and 65 off-island) equal 521 net valid. 64% of 877 Islanders signed the petition.

  • 3/2 - 23 pages of petitions = 498 signatures less (5 duplicates and 50 off-island) equal 443 net valid. We have 25 proxies. We need 82 more signatures or 3.7 more petition pages.

  • 3/1 - 22 pages of petitions = 476 signatures less (4 duplicates and 45 off-island) equal 427 net valid. We need 113 more signatures or 5 more petition pages.

  • 2/27 - 21 pages of petitions = 453 signatures; net valid = 393. We need 147 (540-393) more signatures or 7 more petition pages.

    • 2/23 - 18 pages of petitions = 396 signatures (18*22) times 95% = net valid = 376. We need 174 (540-376) more signatures or 8 more petition pages.

• Click here to view the Petition Committee's work page.

Media

1. Chair: Rita Kepner 395-5971

2. Click here to view the Media Committee's work page.

3. Click here to view MEDIA ADVISORY

4. Click here to view our elected officials.

5. Click here to view a draft of a 2-page letter you can copy

6. Misc.

   • 3/3 - Charlie Bear's Open letter to the Post Office

   • 2/24 -

     • • Click here to post complaints to US Post Office

         • Please note: The USPS and the USPS OIG handle complaints about general service-related issues. If you have a comment or complaint about a major change in service such as postage rates or the proposed Five-Day Delivery, please contact the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). Forward comments, questions, and complaints to the PRC using their online contact form.

       • US Statute governing Postal Service.

• • • Click here to view the Nordland Post Office Facebook page

    • Click here to read an article by Senator Bernie Sanders and an explanation of why the Post Office is in financial difficulties.

Sign

• Chair: Frost Freeman 379-5573.

• Click here to view the Sign Committee's work page.

Doorbell/Telephone

• Chair: Jill Hoines 385-5459

  • Click here to view the Doorbell/Telephone Committee's work page.

• Scripts

  • Knock on doors

  • Call

Legal

• Chair: Paul Richmond - 390-379-5575

  • Click here to view the Post Office's response to the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request.

• Click here to view the Legal Committee's work page.

Photos

• Click here to view some photos of the meeting.

• Per Heather Tillman ( 379-1434 heatherseawa@yahoo.com ) - Since we were told tonight that we need to "raise a stink" to get anywhere on this - rather than on a fast tract to closure - I suggest that if you can't be at the March 5th meeting, you send me a headshot photo, and with your permission I will enlarge it, put it on a stick, and carry it to the meeting to represent your personal concern! The same for any other snowbirds out there that feel strongly about this.. The more the merrier on this, and it would be a good visual reminder of the many people behind this issue who are not always visible.

Key Island Net posts

• Click here to view all key Island Net posts

Survey

1. Click this link to view and print a copy of the Postal Plan letter and survey.

On May 10, 2012, Sandy Barrett posted the following note: