News 12 has documented frustrated customers across the tri-state waiting for hours and dealing with chronically missing mail for months.
The president of the New York Metro Area Postal Union Local 10, which represents nearly 4,000 workers across New York and New Jersey, warns that those problems are part of a much larger issue.
“What is at stake here? It’s the deterioration of the United States Postal Service on purpose,” says Joseph Martier, president of the New York Metro Area Postal Union Local 10.
Martier claims the Postal Service recently implemented an 8 a.m. “hard stop,” requiring clerks to stop processing mail – even if First-Class Mail and parcels remain.
He says the consequences can be devastating.
“My concern is that those parcels contain medicine,” he says.
Martier also provided the Turn To Tara team with photographs, which he claims shows mail left behind at a Bronx post office.
The U.S. Postal Service has not confirmed those allegations, but it has now caught the attention of members of Congress.
This is the USPS today; let the mail sit to cut hours. It’s a shame it’s come to this, but this is the Steiner regime and how it manages. It’s apparently being done across the country, so these folks and the concerns will most likely be ignored.