BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – While “neither rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night” is often used to describe the dependability of the U.S. Postal Service, a technical glitch apparently held up delivery to a Buffalo homeless shelter.

The Little Portion Friary on Main Street went without mail delivery for two months. That is two months they did not get their utility bills, nor checks from donors to pay those bills, nor important notices to carry on the charity’s business.

Sister Barbara Pfohl who coordinates Little Portion Friary’s activities, said the shelter closed out a post office box it had for more than 30 years, but the mail was not being delivered to the new mailbox they had just installed at the shelter.

Pfohl said using the post office box at the downtown Ellicott Station on Washington Street was inconvenient for the volunteer staff and their clients.

“It was really a hardship for them to do that. So we said, why not just have it delivered to the house? So we set that up.” More at WIVB