{"id":34779,"date":"2023-12-07T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=34779"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:41:02","slug":"lawmakers-urge-usps-to-implement-oig-reports-recommendations-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2023\/12\/07\/lawmakers-urge-usps-to-implement-oig-reports-recommendations-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Urge USPS To Implement OIG Report\u2019s Recommendations Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/b>\u2014 12\/6\/23 &#8211; Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and Colorado U.S. Representatives Joe Neguse and Brittany Pettersen released the following statement on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Inspector General\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsoig.gov\/reports\/audit-reports\/delivery-and-customer-service-colorado-mountain-towns\">report<\/a>\u00a0on mail service in Colorado\u2019s mountain towns.<\/p>\n<p>The USPS Office of Inspector General initiated the audit after Colorado lawmakers, customers, local leaders, and members of the media called attention to serious deficiencies in mail service, package delivery, facility conditions, customer service, and related issues in Colorado mountain towns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report confirms what we already knew to be true \u2013 that the unreliable and inadequate mail service in our mountain towns has resulted in unacceptable delays and gaps in service for rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past two years, we have repeatedly raised the serious concerns of Coloradans to the U.S. Postal Service. We are pleased to see the USPS Office of Inspector General heed our call to address the root causes of the poor mail service in our mountain towns. We urge USPS to swiftly implement the report\u2019s recommendations and will work with them to ensure they do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, Bennet and Hickenlooper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bennet.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2023\/2\/bennet-hickenlooper-invite-postmaster-louis-dejoy-to-tour-usps-facility-in-colorado-urge-him-to-address-mail-service-issues-across-the-state\">invited<\/a>\u00a0Postmaster Louis DeJoy to tour a USPS facility in Colorado to see firsthand the ongoing service and delivery challenges that Coloradans experienced. In March, Bennet and Hickenlooper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bennet.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2023\/3\/bennet-hickenlooper-raise-usps-service-issues-with-postmaster-louis-dejoy\">met<\/a>\u00a0with DeJoy. During the meeting, DeJoy committed to improving service quality in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/usps-news495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-32684\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/usps-news495-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/usps-news495-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/usps-news495-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 12\/6\/23 &#8211; Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and Colorado U.S. Representatives Joe Neguse and Brittany Pettersen released the following statement on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Inspector General\u2019s report\u00a0on mail service in Colorado\u2019s mountain towns. The USPS Office of Inspector General initiated the audit after Colorado lawmakers, customers, local leaders, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34779","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\/34779","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=34779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34780,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779\/revisions\/34780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}