My small hometown post office. As it turns out, sending a Christmas present to Germany is more difficult than crossing the Maginot Line. I must begin by saying that I have worked for the United States Postal Service (USPS) in the past and therefore can freely gripe. 1 Because the postal service has problems. North Dakota Senator Hoeven has long been trying to draw attention to the increasingly abysmal mail service to rural North Dakota—and I suspect equally abysmal service a