‘Something’s Gotta Be Done’: New USPS Audit Details Mail Issues, Renews Calls For New Leadership

DUNDALK, Md. (WJZ) — Mail delays crossed Baltimore elaborate successful a new audit renews the calls for caller enactment astatine the postal service.

“We store here. We unrecorded here. We announcement these things,” said Brian Butler.

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Outside the Dundalk station office, they don’t request a authorities audit to archer them what they already know.

“It’s been terrible. The mail’s been perfectly terrible,” said Darryl Welsh.

And the Postal Service Inspector General study validated their frustrations Tuesday.

“This has been going connected astir apt since June of past year,” Butler said.

Findings of message delays, inaccurate reporting of those delays and improper scanning.

“Oh my God. I’ve been waiting for this portion of message for 2 weeks. I person yet to person it,” said Tashawna Fennell.

The Baltimore portion has the 2nd astir missing message inquiries successful the country.

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“With much than 3 times the nationalist average. Think we had a occupation here?” Said Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger.

Maryland representatives were among those requesting the OIG report. Inspectors recovered a assortment of circumstantial problems crossed aggregate station offices successful June.

At Clifton East, letters, postmarked successful March were undelivered. They besides recovered message sitting successful the Essex subdivision for much than 4 weeks that hadn’t adjacent been sorted and a missive postmarked successful December was inactive astatine the Dundalk location, six months later.

“Something’s gotta beryllium done. It’s insane to support doing this and expecting amended results,” said Welsh.

The caller Maryland territory manager agrees with the OIG’s 7 recommendations to amended service.

“We’ve been calling for Dejoy’s resignation for a agelong time,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen.

But, Maryland Democrats privation to spot the Postmaster General go.

“You can’t blasted the message carriers oregon the radical wrong of station offices. This occupation started with Mr. Dejoy truly got down the wheel,” said Congressman Kweisi Mfume.

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Congressman Mfume wrote President Biden Tuesday asking for him to region the seat of the USPS Board of Governors. He says he’ll speech to the president astir it successful idiosyncratic time erstwhile helium visits the port.

Paul Gessler