{"id":26151,"date":"2019-04-18T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26151"},"modified":"2019-04-18T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:17:11","slug":"congressman-mceachin-responds-to-united-states-postal-service-richmond-district-mail-delivery-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/04\/18\/congressman-mceachin-responds-to-united-states-postal-service-richmond-district-mail-delivery-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman McEachin Responds to United States Postal Service Richmond District Mail Delivery Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26152\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Congressman-A.-Donald-McEachin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Congressman-A.-Donald-McEachin.jpg 450w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Congressman-A.-Donald-McEachin-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #666666; font-family: Constantia, 'Lucida Bright', 'DejaVu Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong>Richmond, Va. &#8211; <\/strong>4\/17\/19 -Congressman\u00a0<strong>A. Donald McEachin<\/strong>\u00a0(VA-04) released the following statement in response to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsoig.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document-library-files\/2018\/DR-AR-19-005.pdf\">audit report<\/a>\u00a0conducted by the United States Postal Service\u2019s Office of the Inspector General regarding mail delivery delays in the Richmond district;<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #666666; font-family: Constantia, 'Lucida Bright', 'DejaVu Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u00a0\u201cThis mail delivery study confirmed what I have been hearing from my constituents over and over again: people in Richmond are experiencing severe mail delivery issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #666666; font-family: Constantia, 'Lucida Bright', 'DejaVu Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cThe constituents of the 4th Congressional District deserve\u00a0reliable and predictable mail delivery. They deserve the best quality service and right now that is not happening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #666666; font-family: Constantia, 'Lucida Bright', 'DejaVu Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">&#8220;That is why, throughout my time in Congress, I have written\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mceachin.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/mceachin-demands-answers-postmaster-general-east-end-post-office\">multiple<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mceachin.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/mceachin-meets-richmond-postmaster-search-solutions-constituents-issues\">\u00a0letters<\/a>, held a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edit-mceachin.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/congressman-mceachin-hosted-postal-town-hall\">town hall<\/a>\u00a0on mail delivery issues, and dedicated a staff member to meet weekly with USPS to discuss ongoing concerns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #666666; font-family: Constantia, 'Lucida Bright', 'DejaVu Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cI will not stop fighting until these issues are resolved, and it is my hope that this report contributes to improved postal service delivery. Until then, my staff will continue to meet with constituents and work diligently to resolve these issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond, Va. &#8211; 4\/17\/19 -Congressman\u00a0A. Donald McEachin\u00a0(VA-04) released the following statement in response to an\u00a0audit report\u00a0conducted by the United States Postal Service\u2019s Office of the Inspector General regarding mail delivery delays in the Richmond district; \u00a0\u201cThis mail delivery study confirmed what I have been hearing from my constituents over and over again: people in Richmond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26153,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions\/26153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}