{"id":26677,"date":"2019-06-21T22:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T03:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26677"},"modified":"2019-06-21T22:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T03:01:05","slug":"snail-mail-congressman-vows-city-wide-change-following-recent-graceland-annex-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/06\/21\/snail-mail-congressman-vows-city-wide-change-following-recent-graceland-annex-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Snail mail: Congressman vows city-wide change following recent Graceland Annex report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=5357811\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; It could be an important bill, a wedding invitation or that check you&#8217;ve been waiting on in the mail. Complaints of delayed or delivered late snail mail has become a problem with the U.S. Postal service in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n<p>A recent Inspector General&#8217;s report of one district uncovered more issues and now a U.S. Representative said that report is prompting city-wide change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They went to one station and found horrible practices, miss delivered mail, late mail, mail that&#8217;s not delivered, and probably what&#8217;s worse is misrepresentations and lies about the quality of that service,&#8221; Representative Mike Quigley said.<\/p>\n<p>The Audit Report focused on the Graceland Annex in the North Center neighborhood, but Rep. Quigley said the issues aren&#8217;t isolated. The I-Team also uncovered delays in previous reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get complaints throughout the district, you talk to my colleagues from Chicago, other congressmen, and they&#8217;ll you the same thing,&#8221; Rep. Quigley said.<\/p>\n<p>Findings of the audit include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mail not being delivered due to a shortage of full-time clerks and city letter carriers- and lack of replacements for sick employees<\/li>\n<li>Management failing to report delayed mail<\/li>\n<li>50 percent of mail carriers were still on the street after 6 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/business\/snail-mail-plagues-chicago-recent-report-prompts-city-wide-change\/5357857\/\">ABC Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26678\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chicago-Mail-Problems2-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chicago-Mail-Problems2-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chicago-Mail-Problems2-80x55.jpg 80w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chicago-Mail-Problems2.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; It could be an important bill, a wedding invitation or that check you&#8217;ve been waiting on in the mail. Complaints of delayed or delivered late snail mail has become a problem with the U.S. Postal service in the Chicago area. A recent Inspector General&#8217;s report of one district uncovered more issues and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677","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=26677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26679,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677\/revisions\/26679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}