{"id":38328,"date":"2025-08-14T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=38328"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:16:00","slug":"congresswoman-ann-wagner-slams-st-louis-usps-mismanagement-calls-for-immediate-firings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/08\/14\/congresswoman-ann-wagner-slams-st-louis-usps-mismanagement-calls-for-immediate-firings\/","title":{"rendered":"Congresswoman Ann Wagner Slams St. Louis USPS Mismanagement, Calls for Immediate Firings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballwin, MO \u2013 8\/13\/25 &#8211; Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO) released the following statement after the audit of St. Louis-area postal operations:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe utter mismanagement of St. Louis area postal facilities has been a stain on our region that has severely impacted Missourians for too long.\u00a0 I have repeatedly called for an audit and now that I have seen the results, it\u2019s clear the problem is worse than we ever thought.\u00a0 This goes beyond mere incompetence. Bad leadership and completely ineffective management have stopped Missourians from getting vital medications and legal documents and robbed citizens seeking to vote by mail of the opportunity to have their vote counted.\u00a0 Our community deserves a Postal Service that fulfills its core responsibility\u2014delivering mail\u2014instead of abandoning basic job responsibilities like showing up and answering the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have requested multiple meetings with previous and new leadership to address these issues.\u00a0 The United States Postal Service serves the public, and such flagrant disregard for accountability is completely unacceptable.\u00a0 The results of this audit demand an immediate and severe response: those in charge must be fired and new management must come in to clean house and ensure the Postal Service gets back to a level of service that families, workers, and small businesses can depend on for their day-to-day needs.\u00a0 The people of Missouri deserve better, and they will get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the audit\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsoig.gov\/reports\/audit-reports\/kansas-missouri-district-delivery-operations-st-louis-mo-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" data-extlink=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29060 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballwin, MO \u2013 8\/13\/25 &#8211; Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO) released the following statement after the audit of St. Louis-area postal operations: \u201cThe utter mismanagement of St. Louis area postal facilities has been a stain on our region that has severely impacted Missourians for too long.\u00a0 I have repeatedly called for an audit and now that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38328","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\/38328","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=38328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38329,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions\/38329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}