How bad is on-time mail delivery to Central Virginia? According to U.S. Post Office inspector general figures, it is the worst in the country. Postal service is so bad that a Richmond electoral official warned voters not to risk letting their ballots, in the words of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, “be swallowed by a dysfunctional Postal Service.” — JAB
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There is a secure drop off box in Petersburg for voters choosing to use that box rather than the mail. I assumed that is true everywhere. I may have assumed wrong. Is an alternative mail box required by regulation or code?
This does not surprise me one bit.
Just one of the many, many ways Richmond City is disfunctional.
Louis DeJoy — the fish rots from the head.
Does his ex-wife live in Virginia or something?
His work product lives here
Why is he making Virginia have the worst mail delivery in the nation? What did Virginia do to him?
Because he’s making everybody slower?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/15/usps-job-layoff-mail-service-delay-louis-dejoy
But Virginia is the worst according to the info above. Why? Does DeJoy have it out for Virginia?
Y’all need to narrow your focus. Richmond is dragging the whole state down. The dysfunction there is profound. Virginia as a whole may not be so much worse than other states.
Do you include the General Assembly as part of Richmond dysfunction?
Yes, but not for mail service dysfunction. The Feds are on the hook for that, and in particular it’s the mail “service” in the Richmond area that really sucks.
Here’s today’s story from Richmond:
https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/richmond-mail-theft-fraud-delays-usps/article_14194c56-ebe0-11ee-86da-bf71fd0301e4.html
Because somebody has to be last. Maybe we don’t have enough rain and snow. Although, we should easily make up for it with gloom. There’s certainly enough gloom around BR…
Louis DeJoy — the fish rots from the head.
Looks like they need to get some folks from California to work at the Post Offices in Virginia
While they seldom deliver to the house in Orange County (box at the road)… recently a new driver brought a package to the house and was cussing because she didn’t know how to BACK the van in order to turn around. My huband had to show her how back the vehicle. 🤪
This is what you get when you hire incompetents or lower the standards. 🙄
Had an Ebay delivery a month ago- Came from a small town in Michigan. I am in Mechanicsville.
The route according to tracking(if accurate.)
Detroit
Washington DC
Richmond
Omaha(!!)( for several days)
Washington DC
Richmond
works that way for all the package folks, USPS, UPS , Fed Ex… They work the same way the airlines do via “hubs”.
Yes, shipping companies have hubs. However, there is no legitimate logistical reason for sending a package which has arrived in Richmond, Virginia and is destined for Mechanicsville, Virginia, to Omaha, Nebraska, or even to Washington, DC.
Mechanicville is about 7 miles from Richmond.
Many do take circuitous paths though. A letter mailed in Fredericksburg to Spotsylvania will go to Richmond first then back to Spotsy. Sanderson is a massive sorting facility.
I’ve watched Amazon orders from NC go to NJ then to Ashland….
it’s the “hubs”….
Funny you should mention that. Not long ago I had a package coming from Charlotte to the Richmond area. It took more than 3 weeks and the intervention of my local Postmistress to spring it loose.
It departed Charlotte with the dreaded “en route to next destination” tracking message for more than 2 weeks before it showed up at Dulles (guess I was lucky it didn’t head to Omaha from there). From there it was another week en route back to Richmond where it sat at the bulk mail center until the Postmistress got it to our local PO.
Last month they did better, New Mexico to New Jersey and then on to Richmond in about a week.
I spent close to a decade as both a residential tenant and then an office tenant in a building on the Circle Formerly Named for Jeb Stuart. The delivery service there was so bad it was comical. And this goes back 15 years, long before the period described in the RTD story. My grandmother was the postmaster of Bluefield, VA, and 60 years ago was struggling with managing the union employees. Fire somebody? Fuhgetaboutit.
When I check tracking and I see my item has landed itself at “Sandston” I know it’ll not make its projected delivery date. I have had it range from a week to 3 months.
It’s Sandston, near Byrd field on the east side of Richmond. It’s been a horror show there for quite awhile.
Noted. Thanks for the correction.
My fondest package debacle involves, going from Hyattsville to Standston and back to Hyattsville, only to return to Standston and be lost for a month.
Needless to say, that Valentines Day gift for the spouse was “late”.
Noted. Thanks for the correction.
My fondest package debacle involves, going from Hyattsville to Standston and back to Hyattsville, only to return to Standston and be lost for a month.
Needless to say, that Valentines Day gift for the spouse was “late”.
Byrd field?
I’ve not heard anyone use that name in a long time.
Oh? Hey it was only renamed Richmond International in 1984. That’s not but 40 years ago. Guess I’ve been in the Richmond area too long, not quick to embrace change, and pretty convinced there was nothing wrong with the old way of doing things. Sheesh, getting old sucks.
I still call D.C. National Airport having not adopted that ill advised newfangled cult of personality name change, so I am consistent.
RIC and DCA are good shorthand.
Wait a minute. Union workers in California are the best?
Shazaaaammmm
USPS employees in Virginia are also union workers…
Don’t confuse him with facts. There isn’t a problem that a Union and or the Fed can’t fix in his world.
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