LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Concerned citizens of Ward, CO write letter to Senator Bennet, Udall and Congressman Polis:

Re:  Docket 1386382-80481

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On September 28, 2011 Marcela Rivera, District PO Review Coordinator for

the Ward, Colorado Post Office, reviewed, signed and certified a Proposal

to Close that contain innaccurate facts and information regarding the age

of the Ward Post Office building, the historical significance of the Ward

Post Office, historical events relating to the Ward Community, the number

of business in the Ward Postal area , the number of non-profit

organizations in the Ward Postal area, and the disadvantages of proposed

alternate service to customers.

The correct facts had been presented to her in oral testimony and in

writing three weeks earlier at the September 6, 2011 meeting with Ward

Postal Customers, witnessed by attendees James Thompson (Senator

Udall), Danielle Henry (Congressman Polis), Colorado State Senator

Jeanne Nicholson, and over 60

Ward Postal area customers, as well as in copies of letters written by the

Boulder County Commissioners, two historic organizations, and letters from

Colorado Representative Claire Levy and Colorado State Senator Jeanne

Nicholson.  All of the correct information known at the time to Marcela

Rivera were ignored and incorrect facts were certified three weeks after

she received correct information about the Ward Post Office.

We do not feel that it consistent with USPS procedures and regulations for

a USPS employee to Certify information that is known at the time to be

inaccurate.

We request an Investitgation into this Certification and request that you

ask the USPS to re-issue a Proposal to Close that contains   information that is

consistent with the facts about the Ward Postal area that were  known by the

USPS Review Coordinator on the date of Certification.  As you are our

elected representative, we expect an explanation for this behavior on the

part of a government agency -- plainly stated, it's called lying.

In addition, we want you to know that we strongly feel that the USPS

Closing process is a SHAM ---- we provided correct information to the USPS

at an early date because we knew the USPS had a history of including

innacurate information in Proposals to Close, we knew that in the past the

USPS did not correct inaccurate information, and issued Final

Determinations based on inaccurate information, and we knew that  the Postal

Regulatory Commission continually ignored factual innacuracy and USPS

violations of its own Postal Code Regulations and summarily denied appeals

without explanation.

We feel that Certifying known inaccurate information is an eggregious

example of USPS Code violations that are common throughout the United

States and in our case, clearly point out that community input is not

considered.

In addition to requesting an investigation into this Certification, we

request that you demand an immediate Moratorium on Closing Rural Post

Offices until such time that tranparency and procedural issues  are resolved.

Pat Cypher

Citizens to Save the Historic Ward Post Office