Trego's Mountain Ear

This isn’t recent news on the UPS front, but it’s fairly recent locally. On May 1st, the UPS began its “rural deferred program”, which ostensibly saves costs by reducing deliveries to three days a week in rural zip codes (days vary by zip code). Why is this something we’re only noticing in September? The program has had a slow roll out, gradually increasing the zip codes impacted.

UPS hasn’t published much on the topic- but their employees have an online forum that’s worth a visit for more information (even if some of it is speculative). Effectively, this will reduce the number of routes going out each week, thus reducing the jobs available to drivers.

This is unrelated to the USPS accepting amazon deliveries directly in Eureka, but could certainly add to an already inconvenient situation.

Rural Montana just got a little more remote.