Readers Burn Slow Mail and Postmaster General Louis Dejoy

She lives in the area of ​​US 221 and Cotton Hill Road. Unlike many these days, she’s not complaining about sporadic mail deliveries to her home.

Poff is upset about the delivery of mail she sent from there. The two women are less than four miles apart from her.

Poff mailed the card on December 10th. Poff knows because the card was postmarked on his January 5th when he arrived at his home in Munro.

The period is 26 days. To be fair, in that period he had four no-delivery Sundays and he had two Mondays federal holidays.

Poff could have walked the card to Grisso’s house and returned to his own house in less than half a day.

She was one of many readers who responded to last Tuesday’s column about curtailing post office deliveries from Martinsville to Christiansburg to Glasgow.

Some people only get email at home two or three days a week, instead of the six days a week required by law.

When asked about the matter, the Postal Service spokesman Philip Bogenberger said the company has about 20 job openings in the Roanoke area and is trying to recruit at local job fairs.

“Most post offices are fully staffed and delivery routes are covered in the Roanoke area,” Bogenberger replied by email. “We have contingency plans in place for when employees are on vacation. Still, staffing issues can arise, resulting in sporadic mail delivery for short periods of time on some routes. became.”

Below are other readers who recently experienced email issues. Most, but not all, involve sporadic delivery.

Evie Greer Virginia Heights said: We do not receive mail most days. Even if you do receive it, it will arrive piled up at night. After we go to bed, the boxes are delivered to our porch.

“I’ve almost stopped using the mail because important first class mail is so irregular. But I’m expecting my new credit card to be mailed today, but I haven’t received an email today.”

Dave McRobertsChristiansburg: “Here in Christiansburg the same thing is happening with the mail. [Informed Delivery] website. Arrives in a bundle.

Diane SimmonsRoanoke Southeast: “For a while it felt like I was only getting emails every other day, but I didn’t keep track of it. Then I called the post office about the problem she was having. A friend of mine was told they were trying to deliver each route every other day.

“…During the week of December 19-24, I only received two days of mail. I processed the bill online and the financial institution did nothing until the check was missing for X days.Requested wire transfer instead of another check and finally received the funds on January 10th.”

Florence Ray Wright As Martinsville puts it:

peter jenningsSmith Mountain Lake: “My problem is I get other people’s emails at least three or four times a month. And I make it my job to put [back] Put it in the mailbox with the note and take it to the post office or have it delivered by your neighbor.

“But I get mail to people in Vinton, Thaxton, Bottour County, and even Roanoke. I think it’s stuck.

“I know there are people in my mail route who say, ‘Misdelivered mail is junk mail,’ so I wonder how many mails go undelivered. They just throw it away. This is a real problem, especially during the tax period when you’re waiting to receive your 1099 or something.”

Bill HaneyLaurie Court: “I miss the emails 3-4 times a week and then one day I get a batch.

“I, like you, went to the Grandin Road post office to see if they would let me know what was going on. She’s out and her manager is on vacation for some reason, so she’s definitely understaffed.

“Another problem is that there are so many different subwomen who deliver to our neighborhood that they are not familiar with their home addresses. I know they can’t see our home address.”

Genevieve HendersonSouthwest Roanoke County: “We’re having problems at 12 O’clock Knob Road.” That’s what she added.

“And then a problem arose when I took a Christmas card to the main post office there in Cave Spring on December 16th. There were 3 checks.They didn’t get it for almost a month.They recently picked it up outside Atlanta, GA….But it’s not just my card Another aunt sent a card from the Cave Springs post office and it took a month to reach her nephew.

“Back to those days [First-Class postage] Henderson, 87, said.

void walkerGlasgow’s said that the mail delivery problem does not appear to be as severe in Rockbridge County as it is in Roanoke County. However, he noted that the birthday card he sent to a friend who lives outside Lexington took five to 10 days to arrive. (Glasgow to Lexington is about 16 miles.)

Walker tracked the delivery. “From Roanoke to Greensboro, back to Sandston, Virginia, back to Lexington, [to] Rural Courier from Lexington’s Main Post Office.

Other readers question why North Carolina postmaster Louis DeJoy, who was hired under former President Donald Trump, is still holding his job more than two years after President Joe Biden took office. I thought.

“This idiot was appointed,” said Wright, a Martinsville reader. “i don’t know why [U.S. Sens.] Tim Kaine and Mark Warner cannot fire his attacks. ”

“I thought the president had replaced this postmaster.” Charles Reynolds In a Roanoke voicemail he said, “Isn’t he the one who wiped out the machines and people from the post office? If the mail is slow, isn’t it his fault? I thought… If not, maybe it’s time.”

In 2017, DeJoy was one of three deputy finance committee chairs on the Republican National Committee. The Trump-appointed board of directors of the United States Postal Service hired him as the postmaster of the United States in May 2020.

Postmasters serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors, not necessarily at the discretion of the President.

One of DeJoy’s first initiatives was a 10-year cost-cutting plan that critics predicted would slow down email ahead of the 2020 presidential election. It was just a few months after the COVID-19 pandemic began, and at a time when record numbers of voters were expected to vote by mail.

In late summer 2020, DeJoy said cost cutting would be suspended until after the 2020 election. He announced in October that the Postal Service would reverse his initiative.

Congress has since passed a federal law requiring six-day deliveries, except in emergencies such as blizzards and hurricanes.

The board is now 5-4 favored by Biden’s nominee.

“If people need to go, DeJoy should be the first,” wrote Jeff Wendell of Roanoke. “The question is, why is he still there?”