Inconsistent at best.  Non-existent at worst.  That’s what a growing number of homeowners in Ballard are saying about their mail delivery service.

It was last month when KING 5 spoke to a group of neighbors on 8th Avenue Northwest who didn’t receive mail for nearly three years, after a family pet frightened a mail carrier in 2013.  The dog passed away in 2014.  Yet mail service wasn’t restored until KING 5 reached out to the USPS for answers in early May.

In response to that incident,the USPS apologized for the inconvenience, and restored service to the impacted customers on 8th Avenue Northwest that same day.  Homeowners say the mail has been arriving every day as it’s supposed to, ever since.

But in the weeks that followed, several people in nearby areas reached out to KING 5, to say that they’re experiencing similar mail delivery dilemmas. Read more