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Whether you are trying to request a passport or you have to send a ballot in absent, theAmerican postal service (USPS) is a vital institution that provides essential services to people across the country. But the agency is not exactly its most functional at the moment, because it has struggled against the challenges of staff shortages in financial gaps in recent years. In April, presidentJoe Biden signThe law on postal services reform, which is fixed, provide nearly $ 50 billion in USPS alternatives over the next 10 years, in order to help strengthen the agency. It will not be an easy solution, however, especially now that the postal service is slammed on another problem. Read the rest to find out which problem is now described as "deeply disturbing" by elected officials.

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A number of problems with which the postal service has been dealt with recently has taken over the Americans it serves. In January, the USPS facedReaction for a website problem This prevented people from ordering their free white house tests. Meanwhile, residents of the countrycomplains about delivery delays of the postal agency, which was caused by the cocovio pandemic, staff shortages and the increase in the volume of mail.

It is not only the average consumer who pushes against the USPS. At the beginning of April, the postal service confirmed that it was planning toIncrease the price of stamps Significantly in July. In response, two main postal organizations and members of the congress have petitioned against the rise in prices. "They no longer need these excessive rate increases,"Stephen Kearney, executive director of the alliance of non -profit sender, saidUnited States today.

The most recent reaction perceived in the postal service is entirely a different problem. May 31, four American senatorssent a letter to the American post masterLouis Dejoy Criticizing the agency for the rise of mail, reported NBC10 in Philadelphia. Senators, including Democrats and Republicans, areTom Carper Delaware,Bob Casey from Pennsylvania,Rob Portman Ohio, andPat Toomey from Pennsylvania.

""Reports that thieves Access USPS Blue collection boxes to fly, then sort the mail to identify the checks they then use for personal purposes are deeply disturbing, "the senators wrote in their letter." Americans use the postal service to send checks to pay their taxes and invoices; They should not have to worry that these checks can be stolen. ""AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

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Although there are several types of mail flight, senators specifically refer to "washed checks", according to NBC10. The media declared that it had covered several reports of this program in 2022, which implies that a thief having access to the mail from the USPS, finding a personal check, then recreating and fraudulently hosting the check for a large sum of money.

President of the Association of Postal Police Officers (PPOA)Frank Albergo told NBC-Affiliate News 4 in Washington, D.C., that thieves areAccess now At USPS Mail by attacking and stealing the carriers of their Arrow key, which is a main key which can unlock many Blue Collection boxes from the agency in a single delivery and collection route.

"These arrow keys give access to collection boxes, apartments, relay boxes, cluster boxes. So, instead of obtaining some letters, they really get baths and school bags mail, "said Albergo. According to new data from US Postal Inspection Service (USPI), flights and assault against messaging factors are increasing, with more than 2,000 attacks targeting workers since 2020.

In a report in August 2020 quoted by the senators in their letter, the office of the USPS Inspector General (OIG) found that postal management controlsOn its arrow keys were ineffective. "More specifically, the number of arrow keys in circulation is unknown, and the local units have not adequately declared lost, stolen or broken or kept keys from key inventories," said the report. "In addition, the postal service has not restricted the number of replacement arrow keys that could be ordered."

The OIG concluded that it was a major security problem because "ineffective controls on arrow keys increase the risk that these elements be lost or stolen and not detected". In their letter, the senators require USPS answers in the next 30 days to several questions about the security of the Americans. This includes what postal service plans must improve the mechanisms to identify and investigate the lost or stolen keys, whether USP has identified cases of carriers selling keys, the previous steps that the agency has taken to improve controls management and plans to mitigate the flight of USPS Blue collection boxes.

"This faith in postal service on this issue, as well as a range of questions, must be restored," Casey told NBC10. "When you have the hard money earned that people go out and earn every day, then they have stolen money because of certain problems in the system, whether it is the inability to secure these blue collection boxes or Whether they are other problems with them, -universal, we must make sure that we get answers to these questions. "

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