RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Sen. Mike Rounds says the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has agreed to an investigation into mail service in South Dakota. The update comes less than two months after Rounds sent the inspector general a letter requesting an investigation.
“They were in my office, and the agreement with the Inspector General is that they’re going to do it clandestinely,” Rounds said. “They’re not going to tell the postal service where they’re showing up, when they’re showing up. They’ve told us they will let my office know when they’re on site, but they’re not gonna let the postal service know it because they don’t believe the postal service will play fair with them.”
Rounds originally sent a letter to the postmaster general in September asking him to restore reliable service in South Dakota. Rounds points to a regional distribution center model that leads to mail traveling on indirect routes. The senator has said mail pieces traveling across or to South Dakota are going around and outside the state before reaching their final destinations
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