Reader Jim Hill (Jan. 8, “Mailing in the news”) has written to complain about mail delivery service and suggests the U.S. Post Office should possibly be privatized. I beg to differ with that idea!
What we need is management and legislative support for an efficient national service. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has systematically followed policies to weaken our postal service by ordering destruction of equipment and reducing funding instead of making efforts to modernize and lobby Congress for better funding.
Every person I have spoken to has had delivery problems. My local post office is severely shorthanded to the point of delivery happening well after dark and deliveries missed. I was told that they were short seven delivery people due to “illness,” and one had just quit.
This is not “shoddy service,” as Hill asserts, but a result of crippling policies finally affecting those of us on the receiving end.
It is shameful that our country does not have a state of the art mail service. Shame on Congress for ignoring the problem.
Loyal USPS employees are struggling to provide any service at all. They need our understanding and support not whining complaints.
Mary Johnson, Millcreek
