Chicago Area Residents Say They’ve Gotten No Mail For Weeks, Are Missing Necessities Such As Medicines

CHICAGO (CBS) — No mail for weeks – it’s an issue in Hyde Park, where CBS 2 heard from a few people who are missing shipments they need.

CBS 2’s Tara Molina talked to an elderly man who relies on prescriptions he gets in the mail. She also asked the U.S. Postal Service what’s going on and what they’re going to do to fix it.

The people we talked to can’t wait any longer. They have been waiting on prescriptions they should have had delivered almost two weeks ago.

For Roy Coleman, it has been three weeks since the mail stopped coming. He said before this, he has never had a problem with the mail in Hyde Park.

“Some of the other people in the complex are having the same problem,” Coleman said.

A retired science teacher, Coleman and his wife, Diana, have called a quiet stretch of Kimbark Avenue home for decades.

“We’ve only seen the mailman twice,” he said.

But it’s more than missing mail to Coleman.

“The only thing that I’m concerned about are the two medicines,” he said.

Coleman needs those two prescriptions just to get through the day. Shipped two weeks ago, they usually get to him in a day or two.

Where does he think those prescriptions are right now?

“Probably sitting at the Post Office, because we’re not getting anything,” Coleman said. Read more at CBS Chicago

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