Neighbors want answers about delayed mail delivery

DENVER —- A bunch of neighbors simply south of Denver is asking questions following mail supply they describe as “sporadic” and “inconsistent.”

Andre Ransom says she was one of many first residents off of West Union Avenue to note the adjustments in United States Postal Service (USPS) deliveries to her residence and others.

“You stated to your neighbor, ‘Did you get mail yesterday? Or the day earlier than?’ [They’d say,] ‘No, I don’t suppose I did.’ Then it begins turning into very apparent that you simply exit and also you don’t get mail for 2… three… 4 days,” she stated. “We are able to’t rely on mail.”

Ransom says she started noticing the issue initially of the yr.

“My husband depends on onerous copies to pay his payments, so he’s needed to go beg off late charges as a result of he didn’t get his invoice on time,” she stated.

Ransom has gone to her closest submit workplace twice to attempt to determine the problem.

“Once I was on the submit workplace, there have been different folks coming in saying, ‘The place’s my mail?’” Ransom recalled.

She says she was handed a stack of mail on her second go to to the submit workplace and was instructed the problems had been as a result of COVID-19.

“I used to be instructed each occasions that 40% of the employees was out due to COVID,” Ransom stated.

In a press release to Denver7, a USPS spokesperson stated the company was feeling the impacts of the pandemic and flexing its obtainable sources.

The spokesperson stated there have been certainly supply points at a Denver submit workplace and stated USPS was taking steps to deal with the matter. Additional particulars on what the problems had been weren’t offered.

On Monday, a number of indicators had been posted within the Bear Valley submit workplace, south of Denver, promoting for open positions throughout the Denver metro.

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