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Audit points to serious staffing problems as key source of crippling mail issues across region

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — 8News is continuing to connect the dots as to why mail service in our community has been messy and unreliable for years.

A recent 31-page audit by the United States Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that Central Virginia’s Sandston Processing and Distribution Center was rampant with unstable leadership and low employee availability.

8News spoke with U.S. Senator Tim Kaine about this Monday. The leader has become a major figure in the movement to crack down on Virginia’s mail disruptions throughout the years.

“[Louis] DeJoy was giving us reports about incremental improvement, but the last meeting we had with him was in October,” Kaine said Monday when asked about communication with the U.S. Postmaster General.

It’s been about three months since lawmakers’ last formal meeting with Postmaster DeJoy. These meetings stemmed from legislators’ calls to hash out why Virginia’s mail system is the third worst in our country.

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