Rep. Dusty Johnson told a crowd it’s time to “turn up the heat” on the U.S. Postal Service following thousands of constituent complaints.
He held a U.S. Postal Service Round Table in Sioux Falls to continue discussions around the growing frustrations with the mail carrier. The round table included frustrated South Dakota residents and Texas Rep. Pete Sessions via zoom. Sessions serves as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations. He’s previously investigated the USPS and been critical of its work in rural America.
USPS was invited to attend the town hall, but Johnson said the entity declined once they knew media was invited.
“When we’ve tried to get a response from locals, things have gone pretty good,” Johnson said. “Anytime we’ve ever tried to get a response from leadership further up the food chain, whether that be regional or national, I have been tremendously disappointed.”
Chairman Sessions pledged to discuss the issue with Rep. Johnson in South Dakota firsthand and bring the regional USPS there as well. Johnson called Sessions “proactive.”
You think you’re disappointed, try working for the USPS. Dude, I hate to disappoint you but they don’t care what you or your constituents think. They treat employees and customers alike like crap; it’s their way or the highway. Good luck bud.
Completely agree and we have no vehicles to deliver out of , the post masters hands are ties since the VMF does what they want when they want , my office alone has 13 trucks down, I emailed Trump last July and he responded and acted swiftly and the operation center told him it was a lie , we cant get mail delivered if we have no vehicles and you keep canceling contract with companies who supply motors , and further more Management has no cluenwhat they are doing , they have either never delivered mail or simply are lazy and dont care , most supervisors in our office come in sit down and never move until time to go home they are so lazy the order food via door dash and page a clerk or sub to go retrieve it from the window. So start with manaand fire them first and the VMF get our trucks running in NC and see how we shine . We do not need 4 supervisors and 3 204Bs working te office daily plus a postmaster, cut cost by cutting management make the post master stay past 12 and work and make them come in before 7 . The carriers are doing their jobs to the best of our ability.
When the postal service was being ripped apart in 2023 taking AFCS machines which cancels first class mail. Now only so many processing plants cancel mail, meaning it takes longer to receive mail when it has to go another 100 miles to be canceled. Then the mail goes back to sorting and delivery plants to process the mail. After that it gets trucked to local post offices for the carriers to deliver. I understand mail volume has gone down drastically, but keeping one AFCS machine to cancel mail locally would of saved at least 2 to 3 days in delivery. There still are no new vehicles to deliver mail, don’t blame the postal employees especially the carriers they are the heart of the postal service, and they work hard everyday.