View Video of Senator Rosen’s Questioning HERE.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a hearing of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) pressed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on mail delivery delays and failing service standards in Northern Nevada. As a member of the committee that has jurisdiction over the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Senator Rosen has been leading the effort to protect local postal operations in Nevada. Earlier this year, she announced that she successfully pushed USPS to keep local letter mail processing operations in Reno following a misguided plan to move them to Sacramento, California.
Below is an excerpt of the exchange:
Senator Rosen: According to the USPS online performance dashboard, while the standard for receiving and delivering mail in Reno is two days, USPS is currently averaging three to four days in certain zip codes in Reno.
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When can we expect mail delivery back down to the two day standard?
Postmaster DeJoy: Fifty percent of market dominant mail and packages gets delivered a day in advance. We are at about 85 percent on time, 95 percent a day later. We are going to be in that condition for probably the next eight to twelve months, okay, when I expect that all mail through the system reaches its intended. Four days – the average time is 2.8 days across the nation for mail to be delivered.
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