The U.S. Postmaster General said central and southern Illinois is particularly problematic.
U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Springfield expressed continued concern to Postmaster General David Steiner during a committee hearing on March 17. She asked him about declining delivery rates in her district, the Delivering for America plan, and the financial state of the USPS.
Steiner said USPS’ “biggest problem” area is where Budzinski’s district is located.
He said the district is “right, dead in the center of the heart of where our biggest problem is. Right down the center of America, from Chicago to St. Louis to Memphis.”
Steiner added he believes problems in central and southern Illinois to be more of a staffing problem than a network problem.
“My understanding is it’s a staffing problem. That it is hard to get employees to work in the plants where we need them to work, and we don’t have a lot of flexibility to give retention bonuses … because of the way our union contracts work. But that area, I can promise you, is looked at by us – not just every week – every single day, and the numbers are getting better. They absolutely are not there yet,” Steiner told Budzinski.
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