{"id":27640,"date":"2019-11-16T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T16:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27640"},"modified":"2019-11-16T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T16:13:51","slug":"usps-defends-their-record-after-report-names-richmond-area-delivery-among-nations-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/11\/16\/usps-defends-their-record-after-report-names-richmond-area-delivery-among-nations-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS defends their record after report names Richmond area delivery among nation\u2019s worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=xjeDFzaTE6-IDxLIeaBuZkisDkulg971&amp;pbid=bbd65cd3541a43b9a13c9c23190411cb&amp;pcode=IzcHE6tfH3QyrXt6t8LIU_rrYlNy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">RICHMOND, Va. &#8212; The U.S. Postal Service responded Friday to a recent report ranking Richmond&#8217;s mail delivery times as the third-worst in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">Jaclyn Barton, a VCU graduate student studying multimedia journalism, compiled the data\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wtvr.com\/2019\/11\/13\/late-mail-richmond-cns\/\">she obtained from the USPS website<\/a>\u00a0for the Capital News Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">Last spring, less than 84% of the region\u2019s first-class mail was delivered on time, according to the figures. Only two service areas in the U.S. had a worse on-time delivery rate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;The data speaks for itself,&#8221; Barton said. &#8220;I was able to put numbers to those voices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">The Richmond area\u2019s worst quarter in recent years was October through December of 2018, when less than 66% of the mail that was supposed to be delivered in three to five days arrived on time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">That was a difficult quarter throughout the country for the Postal Service: The nationwide on-time delivery rate for that period was just over 72%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">Barton found the Postal Service\u2019s target is to deliver 96.5% of two-day mail and 95.3% of three-to five-day mail to arrive on time. The service set those targets in 2014, but has never met them. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wtvr.com\/2019\/11\/15\/usps-defends-their-record-after-report-names-richmond-area-delivery-among-nations-worst\/\">WTVR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27641\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Richmond-Mail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Richmond-Mail.jpg 454w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Richmond-Mail-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Richmond-Mail-122x74.jpg 122w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Richmond-Mail-120x74.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Va. &#8212; The U.S. Postal Service responded Friday to a recent report ranking Richmond&#8217;s mail delivery times as the third-worst in the country. Jaclyn Barton, a VCU graduate student studying multimedia journalism, compiled the data\u00a0she obtained from the USPS website\u00a0for the Capital News Service. Last spring, less than 84% of the region\u2019s first-class mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27640","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\/27640","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=27640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27642,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27640\/revisions\/27642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}