Arnold leaders ask US rep for help with city mail problems [Video]

ARNOLD, Mo. — Arnold leaders have reached out to U.S. Rep. Jason Smith for help to solve their problems with the U.S. Postal Service.

Editor’s note: The above video aired March 19.

The agency closed the city’s post office on Jan. 31 and set up a temporary location in the parking lot at 2184 Michigan Ave., where a new post office will open once renovations are completed.

On April 5, Arnold Mayor Ron Counts and council members sent a letter to Smith.

“We are hoping the federal government who is in charge of the postal system would take a look at the terrible response we are getting at a local level about the federally run post office,” Counts said. “We are really disgusted. There is not a day that goes by, hardly, that I don’t get remarks from our residents about how upset they are about how the post office is being handled. I don’t think there is …