Our View: Local mail service must improve

As they say, “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

Apparently, no one figured fiscal cutbacks and downsizing into the equation when associating that creed with the United States Postal Service. Yet here we are, with our mail making a detour to Salt Lake City for sorting, even if it’s traveling from Green River to Rock Springs. That’s a trip that hardly takes 15 minutes to complete one way, but results in more than 400 additional miles for letters to reach their destination.

Whoever thought consolidating the...