Speeding up news delivery to 98273 ZIP code

For the 170 or so La Conner Weekly News subscribers who have a Mount Vernon ZIP code, we’ll get our news to you a few days quicker now.

Skagit Publishing in Mount Vernon prints the Weekly News every Tuesday night and delivers addressed bundles to the La Conner post office for us to mail. Our subscribers with a La Conner 98257 ZIP code get the paper on Wednesday. Not so for subscribers outside the 98257 ZIP code.

It’s most bothersome where the La Conner School District boundary and Mount Vernon’s 98273 ZIP code overlap (think Best and Chilberg Roads, Dodge Valley, Rexville, Pleasant Ridge).

If that’s where you live, your Weekly News goes to the U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Seattle for sorting. That adds several days to delivery times.

We were stumped for viable options until the helpful staff at the La Conner post office suggested we submit a form to the Mount Vernon post office and Weekly News subscribers in both Mount Vernon ZIP codes will get their papers within a day or two of La Conner subscribers, starting soon.