Leaders in Tilton are asking Congress to figure out what’s wrong with their post office.<\/p>\n
The mayor says letters keep getting delivered to the wrong place, and the complaints are racking up. He says he’s tried everything else, from trying to work with their local office, to contacting the postmaster at the regional office in Danville.<\/p>\n
But a few letters getting mixed up isn’t what’s worrying him the most. Mayor David Phillips speaks to us in an empty board room, but it wasn’t empty last night. People came out to complain about their mail service. One man said his was delivered a bit late.<\/p>\n
“He just got a letter yesterday dated August the 14th. And he just got it home yesterday so it’s been sitting somewhere at the wrong house.”<\/p>\n
And when Phillips opens the city hall mailbox, he’s a little skeptical himself– after the police department’s mail was delivered to a house down the road.<\/p>\n
“City hall is brick, and got a sign out that says ‘Village of Tilton City Hall’ in front of it, but the mail’s a block away from it.”<\/p>\n
On top of that, he says the carriers may as well be incognito.<\/p>\n
“You’re getting mail carriers that have no uniforms on, they’re carrying mail bags that you don’t recognize that bag, that you don’t know who they are.” Read more<\/a><\/p>\n