My wife and I live in Bluffton, SC, just outside Hilton Head. Since the fall of ‘21, our mail service has stunk. We get a daily email each morning from the USPS site “Informed Delivery” with photos of the envelopes expected for delivery that day. Too often, one or more pieces if not all the pieces of the expected mail do not arrive on that day. Sometimes the missed mail arrives on a subsequent day., but other times has never arrived. Moreover, we routinely get other peoples’ mail in our box. When the Bluffton PO is called, the stock answer is that they’re shorthanded and their few existing deliverers are covering not only their own routes, but other routes as well up to 9PM, when by law they need to shut down for the day. The PO will not say when or if the problem will resolve. We have subsequently learned that the local PO’s cadre of contract mail deliverers who buttressed the workforce, were let go in the fall of ‘21, because the local postmaster was not a fan of contract help. So, the local PO’s cry of short handedness stems from their self-caused action. WTH!
This reader has informed me that the problem has now been remedied, which goes to prove once again, the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
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This is the author. I spoke too soon in saying the problem has been remedied. For two weeks, deliveries were flawless. However, since then we’ve been back to delayed, wrong and missing deliveries. Through my Congressperson and Senators, I have established a P.O. contact above the local postmaster. Looks like I’ll be keeping her quite busy.
An update to the update! The improvement to the mail service was short-lived and has reverted back to terrible. Complaining to my Congresswoman hasn’t helped either, because the Post Office is stonewalling her. I’m not for insurrection, but any wonder why there’s so much enmity toward the Government.