VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – A group of Valley City residents expressed their support for the US Postal Service during a rally on the steps of the Post Office in Valley City on Saturday, August 22nd.

Spokeswoman Madaline Luke said we just wanted North Dakota’s Congressional delegation to know that we rely on a functional US Postal Service.

Meanwhile in a news release issued by North Dakota Congressman Kelly Armstrong’s (R, N.D.) office, he blasted Democrats for ignoring issues with the postal service for the last two years only to bring it up now for political reasons.

“Google postal problems in any jurisdiction from one end of this country to the other and you know they’ve existed before,” Armstrong said. “We are doing this in a way that is completely and utterly political theater. Because anybody who’s been paying attention knows that the post office problems are chronic, they’re not acute. They’ve lost $70 billion since 2007 and they lost $9 billion in 2019.”

“You know how important this has been to the Oversight Committee? Our last full hearing on the postal service was in April of 2019,” Armstrong said. “So my question is, why haven’t we been having hearings in Oversight for the two years I’ve been here?”

Armstrong noted he’s the only Republican member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee to cosponsor legislation to remove the postal service’s pension pre-funding requirement.