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Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review
Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review
The U.S. Postal Service closed its office along Wendel Road in Hempfield after the lease on the building was not renewed.
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The U.S. Post Office in the Hempfield village of Wendel closed 10 days ago, forcing 100 customers who got their mail at that site to travel 5 miles to the post office in Manor.
The Postal Service closed the office on Feb. 13 because it lost its lease on the building at 369 Wendel Road, said Tad Kelley, a Postal Service spokesman in Pittsburgh.
It took 36 days for a Fairlawn man s check to travel 20 feet — from the mail slot at the Pulaski post office to its customer service window. Postal Service
Ideally, the United States Postal Service should be as speedy as the Pony Express. But lately, many customers have found it to be more like a broken-down mule.
Douglas Mahrer is one of them. The McMurray resident has not received any magazines in a month, and a package that was shipped from St. Louis on Dec. 15 had not landed on his doorstep as of Monday. And he sent a package to Connecticut on Dec. 12. In theory, it should have taken three days for it to travel 400 miles or so. Instead, it finally arrived at its destination on Dec. 26.
Mahrer doesnât fault mail carriers, but, he points out, âMy view is USPS has done a disservice to its customers by failing to disclose their problems, as well as show what they are doing to correct them.â
Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review
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First it was the election and questions about whether the Post Office could be relied upon to deliver millions of mail-in ballots.
Now, barely six weeks later, an unprecedented uptick in packages from online shoppers and staff shortages exacerbated by a rash of covid-19 outbreaks are combining to strain the U.S. Postal Service to its limits.
Postal Service officials here were hesitant to comment on reports of delivery backlogs across the country as consumers anxiously awaited the delivery of packages in time for Christmas.