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hlthe2b

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5. Rural residents will be totally F..ked. FIrst the efforts to bring wifi to these communities halted and now
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 09:38 AM
Apr 2025

their closest rural post offices closed, and home delivery is uncertain or has been dismantled.

Not only will they not get their routine mail and pharmaceuticals, but our national emergency plans were developed calling on USPS to deliver any urgently needed medications--in anticipation of bioterrorism attacks. So, now those intensely developed and intricate plans are basically thrown by the wayside. Yet one more evidence of how susceptible we are to domestic or foreign terrorism. Sitting ducks is not merely a carnival game... sigh

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