WASHINGTON — Mail delivery delays have continued through this year’s election season and beyond, leading a bipartisan group of senators to air their frustrations with U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Thursday.
Among them was Georgia’s Jon Ossoff, who said that on-time delivery rates for mail are still worse than before DeJoy opened a new regional processing center in Palmetto, despite his repeated promises to do better.
“Postmaster General, you’re not meeting your financial targets, you’re hemorrhaging cash when you said you’d be making money,” Ossoff, an Atlanta Democrat, said. “Delivery in Georgia has been abysmal this year. You have not recovered as you said you would. You need to do better for my constituents in Georgia.”
DeJoy said that first-class mail is delivered on time in metro Atlanta and North Georgia around 75% of the time. That is a marked improvement from the 36% rate this spring, but still lower than before DeJoy began implementing his “Delivering for America” plan in 2021.