*** Protecting the Timely Delivery of Mail - House Oversight Hearing***

[Mersky]

5. Some Mail Is Delayed Five to Six Days in NYC, Postal Workers' Union Says

News coverage of delays in mail as given by the Chairwoman:

Some Mail Is Delayed Five to Six Days in NYC, Postal Workers’ Union Says
By Clodagh McGowan New York City
PUBLISHED 5:36 PM ET Aug. 13, 2020

Like most businesses, the Astoria Bookshop closed its doors to customers when the pandemic erupted. That's when the Postal Service became a lifeline, allowing owner Lexi Beach to sell books online.
But she's noticed problems recently: deliveries to her store with postmarks that are two weeks old, and books mailed to customers in Queens ending up in other states before being delivered back in New York.

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https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/08/13/nyc-elections-2020-nyc-vote-by-mail-mail-is-delayed-by-days-union-says

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From Courier Journal in Kentucky: Postal Service’s Cost Cutting is Frustrating Kentuckians -
(behind paywall)

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And the last article mentioned by Rep. Maloney:

'Like Armageddon': Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
LA Times
Laura J. Nelson, Maya Lau
,LA Times•August 20, 2020

Employees at California postal facilities provide a glimpse of the chaos amid both the pandemic and widespread cuts imposed by the USPS.

Employees at California postal facilities provide a glimpse of the chaos amid both the pandemic and widespread cuts imposed by the USPS. (Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union- Tribune)
Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., began to notice crates of mail sitting in the post office in the early morning that should have been shipped out for delivery the night before.

At a mail processing facility in Santa Clarita in July, workers discovered that their automated sorting machines had been disabled and padlocked.

And inside a massive mail-sorting facility in South Los Angeles, workers fell so far behind processing packages that by early August, gnats and rodents were swarming around containers of rotted fruit and meat, and baby chicks were dead inside their boxes.

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https://news.yahoo.com/armageddon-rotting-food-dead-animals-180715834.html