USPS suspends this service, in force immediately
Some customers may begin to notice that their mail is missing.
These days,Find your empty mailbox is more embarrassment than a cause of concern. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been criticized for delays in delivery across the country, because the officials blame the important endowment shortages that have been exacerbated by the budgetary setbacks and the cocovid pandemic. For some people, however, the mail may never happen: postal service can choose to stop delivering in certain places for various different reasons - and an area discovers it to the hard. Read the rest to find out where the USPS has just suspended the service.
Read this then:USPS has just announced this major delivery change, from August 1.
The postal service previously suspended services for several reasons this year.
The USPS delivers to almost everyone, but it can remove the service if this drastic step is considered necessary. In March, the postal agency interrupted international mail services to Russia in the middle of the country's war against Ukraine, asking customers in the United States to "abstain" fromTry to send a letter Addressed to Russia through the USPS system because it would have returned.
Then in April and May, two separate districts in the United States saw their delivery service suspended after the attacks of factors. First, some residents of Santa Monica, California, receivedOpinion of a mail suspension Due to "several carriers [having] been subjected to attacks and threats of aggression" from an individual, according to the USPS. Then in May, residents of a Greenfield district, Indiana, were informed that the agencyDo not reintegrate the delivery service "Until the residents install mailboxes on the streets", after loose dogs left such a wounded carrier, she needed 50 points.
From now on, the security problems of postal employees in another area have led to another suspension.
Another area has lost an USPS delivery service.
Residents of a southern district of Moines, Iowa, areno longer receive deliveries From the USPS, Kcci has affiliated the local CBS, reported on July 18. According to the media, the agency recently sent a letter to the residents of Avenue East Kirkwood, informing them that their messaging service had been suspended after a postal worker was attacked at the end of June by two dogs in the region .
On June 23, Kcci reported that a USPS factor had beenWounded by a pit bull While delivering mail to the city. "A dog had come out of a closed courtyard. He continued after. He tried to overcome a fence to move away from him and bite him pretty well," said the SGT.Paul Parizek The Moines Police Department told the media. The worker would have always returned home after the attack last month.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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The agency said it was working on a solution to deliver mail safely in the neighborhood.
According to KCCI, the suspension affects deliveries for around 26 houses to monks - and all affected people are not satisfied with the decision. "I understand that the safety of individuals from the post office is the most important, but it also affects a large majority for a single household which had the problem" "John Quastsaid a resident in the neighborhood, said the media.
Residents must currently go to their local post office to receive their mail. But the USPS spokespersonMark Inglett KCCI said the agency hoped to develop a plan in the next two weeks on how to resume service in the neighborhood. "What we are looking for is looking for the best way to deliver this block. Most likely, it will be a delivery on the street or a cluster box," said Inglett.
Thousands of postal workers are attacked by dogs each year in the United States
The attack on the factor of monks took place during the same month that the postal service organized a public service campaign for its national awareness week of dog bite. Before this week, the agency revealed that more than5,400 postal employees In the United States, dogs were attacked in 2021 only.
"Each year, thousands of postal employees are attacked by dogs when they put American mail back. And although it is the natural instinct of a dog to protect their family and their house, we ask all customers to act in a responsible manner by taking security precautions with their dogs while the mail is delivered "Leeann Theriault said in a statement on June 2. "When a carrier arrives at the residence, keep the dog inside the house and far from the door - or behind a leash fence - to avoid an attack."
The postal service also published the ranking of the 25 best cities of the place where dog attacks occurred most often last year. The five best cities were Cleveland, Ohio; Houston, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; Los Angeles, California; And Louisville, Kentucky. Meanwhile, no city of Iowa - not even monks - only makes the list, but only one incident is necessary for the USPS to act. "We take these things very seriously," Inglett told Kcci in June, after the dog attack against the carrier of monks.
Back in 2018, USPS spokespersonKristy Anderson said toMonks register that eachPostal carrier attack incident is examined separately according to the severity of the dog bite and the way the mail is delivered to this particular district. "The security of our carriers is super important," she said. "We will temporarily retain the mail until we can put the situation just so that we do not put our operators in danger."
