{"id":30012,"date":"2021-01-20T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=30012"},"modified":"2021-01-20T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:23:35","slug":"when-will-the-postal-service-catch-up-on-mail-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2021\/01\/20\/when-will-the-postal-service-catch-up-on-mail-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"When will the postal service catch up on mail delays?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND (WJW)\u2013 1\/19\/21 – Weeks after the holidays, many of you are still wondering if the U.S. Postal Service will ever catch up on delays delivering the mail<\/a>, so the I-Team investigated.<\/p>\n

Nothing coming in the mailbox. Many people getting no help online from the postal service. No answer on the phone.<\/p>\n

The I-Team is now pressing to find out how long you\u2019ll have to wait for the U.S.P.S. to clear up massive mail backlogs.<\/p>\n

We spoke with the local postal workers union leader. Daleo Freeman told us he couldn\u2019t predict when the postal service will completely catch up on delays with your checks, prescriptions and packages.<\/p>\n

But, he told us, the postal service hired more people than usual for help over the holidays. In Cleveland,\u00a0many of those workers have been kept on the payroll.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ones that I represent, they\u2019re keeping on 60 to 80 for the rest of the year,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cWe still have a lot of work to do. We\u2019ve been meeting with management almost daily to get their plan on how they\u2019re going to continue to process the mail, and get it out as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The I-Team has been trying for weeks to talk to the local postmaster. For this story, we got the same response we\u2019ve received before: no interview.<\/p>\n

We also asked about customers getting no response when they file complaints about delays with their mail and the postal service didn\u2019t respond to that either.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson did use a general statement blaming the backlog on a record number of packages over the holidays and COVID-19 taking workers off the job. More at WKBN<\/a><\/p>\n

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