INDIANAPOLIS — If you are sending or waiting to receive a package for the holidays, you might be waiting a while longer. In fact, it is possible millions of packages won’t arrive before Christmas.
13News has confirmed increased demand and chronic staffing shortages have created a massive backup that has hobbled the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to deliver packages on time, and part of the backlog is at the USPS shipping hub in Indianapolis.
The supervisors who spoke to 13News were blunt in their assessment of the current backlog impacting millions of packages.
“All priority mail is now running one-to-two weeks behind, but the post office won’t admit that. They won’t tell anybody anything,” said one of the supervisors. “And this isn’t just here in Indiana. It’s the entire country.”
The longtime postal service employee told 13News it is just package delivery that is backed up; letter delivery is running on schedule. Read more at WWLTV
