USPS warns customers of this worsening of the mail problem
Postal service agents say they have not been able to stop this problem.
If you really think about it, we put a lot of confidenceAmerican postal service (USPS). Sensitive documents containing private information to thousands of dollars in monthly rent checks, there are a lot of very important things that we send by mail. Nevertheless, we are counting on postal workers to obtain these articles safelyat their destination and in the hands of the planned recipients. Unfortunately, this is not always what is happening. In fact, USPS employees warn that there is a major problem concerning the safety of your mail, and that only get worse. Read more to discover the latest postal service warning.
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The postal service recently fought over a number of challenges.
The USPS has been faced with a myriad of problems in recent years. The agency fought against staff shortages and financial gaps that have only been exacerbated by the cocovio pandemic. And these challenges have dropped customers, who have experienced delays in sending and an increase in shipping costs. The situation has become so difficult that the presidentJoe Biden signed thePostal services reform law On April 6, which should bring nearly $ 50 billion in USPS relief over the next 10 years to help the agency recover on a solid basis.
Thousands of USPS workers have been attacked in recent years.
But they are hardly the only difficulties in which postal service is confronted. The new data from the US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) indicate thatFlights and attacks Against mail factors, according to news from NBC-Affiliate News 4 in Washington, D.C. In accordance with the postal service police branch, there have been more than 2,000 flights and attacks targeting postal carriers since 2020 .
These attacks are probably linked to the flight of mail, which also increased during the pandemic, reported News 4. According to the Inspector General of the USPS, mail flight complaints increased from 161% from March 2020 to February 2021 . During this period, the USPI received nearly 300,000 mail flight complaints.
"You no longer have to steal a bank. You just fly your letters operator, access a blue collection box or a relay box, and in boom, you have thousands of dollars", president of the association Postal police (PPOA)Frank Albergo told the media, explaining that thieves are generally looking for an arrow key. “These arrow keys give access to collection boxes, apartments, relay boxes, cluster boxes. So, instead of obtaining a few letters, they actually get baths and mail satchels. ""
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But officials say they are prevented from stopping these crimes.
The increase in mail flight and attacks on postal carriers is not the full scope of the problem. USPS postal police said the problem gets worse because they aresidelined while crime increases, ABC 7 in Chicago, Illinois, recently reported. According to the media, there were 2,700 postal police (PPO), but this number decreased to only 400.
It is not only the reduced number of officers. Retired postal police officerJames Bjork told ABC 7 that the protection of postal carriers on their routes was part of the work of a PPO until a clarification of USPI policy in 2020 draws street officers and limited their competence to the protection of postal service installations.
"What they have done was transferred the burden to local police services. Local police services obviously have other things to fear," Albergo told ABC 7, while PPOs are now " Postal handcuffed installations, "he added.
The USPIS says that there are still officers responsible for managing mail flight and transport attacks.
A USPIS spokesperson told News 4 that the PPO jurisdiction "had not changed", despite the clarification. According to the management of the law application, American postal inspectors are responsible for the supervision of criminal surveys, which include mail flights and postporter attacks.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"The American postal inspection service has federal law enforcement agents, American postal inspectors, who apply approximately 200 federal laws which cover the abuse of mail and attacks against the postal system, its employees and its infrastructure "Said the spokesperson.
On the other hand, the USPIS says that PPOs are responsible for providing "uniform protection for postal services", which was clarified for the first resolved, however.
"When they put postal police in the bench, there was an increase in the flight of mail, and he just went from time to time, and we are on the sidelines to watch this debacle take place," said Albergo In News 4. "Put the PPO backs down the street. Let them protect the mail. Let them protect the letter carrier."
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