ST. LOUIS — U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell is calling for greater U.S. Postal Service accountability following discoveries of destroyed and abandoned mail across St. Louis.
Bell said delivery delays and missing mail stem from systemic management problems rather than frontline postal workers.
“This is not on the letter carriers and those frontline postal workers, they are working their tails off, They do not have the resources,” Bell said. “They are understaffed. This is systemic. This starts from the top, and we need to address those issues systemically to not only find out what’s going on, why it’s going on, and then get the resources there to fix it.”
The scrutiny follows recent incidents in the region, including investigators finding 10,000 pieces of undelivered mail inside a garage that a mail carrier is accused of setting on fire. Prior to that discovery, investigators found 30,000 pieces of mail dumped in an abandoned lot in north St. Louis.
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