Frustrated couple pickets Wallingford post office to try to get mail delivered

SEATTLE — A Fremont couple, fed up after not getting mail for days, picketed exterior their native put up workplace.

That couple is only one of a number of folks telling KIRO 7 they haven’t acquired common mail supply.

KIRO 7 put the query on to the USPS; what’s up with the mail?

We couldn’t get them to go on digital camera. However they recited the acquainted points, together with understaffing.

However that’s little consolation to those that say they want their mail.

For almost two weeks in December, resident Leo Griffin says mail vehicles had been a uncommon sight in his Fremont neighborhood after his USPS mail stopped arriving mid-month.

“It stopped on the seventeenth,” stated Griffin.

And for 12 lengthy days, he says, they bought no mail in any respect, one thing that had by no means occurred.

“They appear short-staffed as a result of each from time to time, we’ll simply have a day the place there’s simply no mail delivered that day, and it will get caught up the following day,” Griffin stated. “However I’ve by no means had it for such a very long time.”

So, he emailed the US Postal Service.

“After which it says they’re ‘utilizing all obtainable assets at present, together with bringing in carriers from exterior the world to maneuver the mail and meet our supply commitments,’” Griffin stated, studying from the reply.

Griffin and his spouse bought so annoyed that they picketed exterior their Wallingford put up workplace final Friday.

“We simply kinda wished to clarify that individuals, you understand, want their mail,” insisted Griffin.

They don’t seem to be alone.

Final month, KIRO 7 talked to Maple Valley residents who complained their mail was additionally AWOL.

Since then, we’ve got heard from residents in Covington, Kent and West Seattle.

In an announcement, a USPS spokeswoman wrote, partly:

“We’re simply coming off our peak season for mail supply. Our networks … proceed to be very busy. We’re utilizing each obtainable useful resource at our disposal, together with borrowing workers from amenities throughout the state.”

“I believe it’s a administration problem on the put up workplace,” stated Griffin. “The person mail carriers are working their tails off.”

So, he’s interesting to Congress to behave.

“I would really like them to have hearings on it, to let you know the reality, as a result of I believe it’s a much bigger drawback,” he stated.

Not less than one member of Congress, Rep. Kim Schrier, has stated she is trying into the problem.

As for the supply issues at Griffin’s home, the postal service says their data point out mail was delivered in his neighborhood on Dec. 24, the twenty eighth, the twenty ninth and Jan. 3.

That could be. Griffin’s spouse says they acquired packages however didn’t get one letter between Dec. 17 and Dec. 29.

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