Post Office Replaces District Manager Of Maryland, Postmaster Of Baltimore, Ruppersberger Says

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Amid continued frustrations successful the region implicit a deficiency of message service, the United States Postal Service announced a caller District Manager of Maryland and Postmaster of Baltimore, 2nd District Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger said connected Tuesday.

Lora McLucas volition instrumentality implicit operations successful the authorities and Eric Gilbert volition instrumentality arsenic Baltimore Postmaster, a occupation helium held arsenic precocious arsenic 2020, Ruppersberger said.

“Changes to the USPS’ section enactment are invited news. The subordinate stops astatine the top: for excessively long, my constituents person been waging a relentless conflict to simply get their message connected time, if astatine all,” Ruppersberger said successful a statement. “Citizens person been going weeks without receiving their message – including paychecks and prescriptions – lone to look hours-long lines and unacceptable lawsuit work erstwhile they spell to the station bureau to pick-up backlogged message successful person.”

Ruppersberger touted McLucas’ “no-nonsense attack and absorption connected the fundamentals” and said helium expects Gilbert’s anterior acquisition successful the country volition let him to “hit the crushed running.”

The postal service’s inspector wide is auditing six section station offices successful Dundalk, Essex, Rosedale, Parkville, Middle River and Loch Raven, Ruppersberger said, with recommendations expected adjacent month.

USPS has blamed the delays and deficiency of message connected the pandemic and staffing shortages. The bureau has authorized much overtime, expanded delivery, utilized further carriers from section offices and hired much employees successful an effort to combat these problems.

Ruppersberger had antecedently reached retired to the Postmaster General Louis DeJoy requesting a gathering with apical postal officials, on with an audit of respective Baltimore-area station offices.

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In a June statement, helium said DeJoy’s bureau sent “a litany of excuses, finger-pointing and faulty logic that neglect to explicate wherefore determination is specified disparity of work levels crossed the state and adjacent wrong our ain authorities and counties.”