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Missouri's largest general farm organization is slamming a proposal from the United States Postal Service (USPS) to change rural mail delivery. Missouri Farm Bureau president Garrett Hawkins joined us live on 939 the Eagle's "Wake Up Mid-Missouri" to discuss the plan. Mr. Hawkins, who lives in west-central Missouri's Appleton City, has written a letter to Postmaster General Louis Dejoy blasting the plan. President Hawkins tells listeners that the proposal would consolidate mail drop off and pick operations for locations 50 miles or more from the nearest regional USPS hub. Mr. Hawkins says his 157,000 Missouri Farm Bureau member families and other rural residents depend on timely mail for medication and important things like bills. He also complains about a lack of transparency from the USPS, saying it was rolled out in the Federal Register during Labor Day weekend. President Hawkins says the plan would impact 68 percent of rural Missourians mail and that rural Americans deserve quality mail service too: