KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After months of complaints regarding mail services throughout the metro, locally elected officials announced they have joined forces across party lines to combat delivery delays and find solutions to the U.S. Postal Service’s growing problems.
According to a news release, “U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver II (D-MO-05), Jake LaTurner (R-KS-02), Sharice Davids (D-KS-03), Mark Alford (R-MO-04) and Sam Graves (R-MO-06) united in a bipartisan effort to address mail delivery delays in the Kansas City area.”
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The group of elected officials has called on USPS Postmaster General Louis Dejoy to follow through with solutions to problems identified in an audit.
The audit investigated three Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas locations in June: Hickman Mills Post Office, Robert L. Roberts Post Office and Shawnee Mission Post Office.
“My mail is late all the time at the PO box,” said Gary Roberts, who uses the South Troost Post Office in Kansas City, Missouri. “I got something from Social Security on the 25th, but I didn’t get it in my PO box until the 29th, and it was due on the 30th, so what do you think they did to me? They suspended my money.”