A KSL investigation showed the United States Postal Service owes Salt Lake City thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets. After the story aired, both sides agreed to resolve the issue, but it appears postal workers are still breaking city laws. (Photo: KSL-TV)
April 28, 2015 SALT LAKE CITY — It’s been six weeks since a KSL investigation revealed the worst parking offenders in Salt Lake City: employees of the United States Postal Service. The USPS owes the city tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets. That hasn’t changed, and from what KSL Investigators have witnessed, postal workers are still breaking city laws.
“How many (tickets) have you gotten?” KSL reporter Mike Headrick asked one postal worker.
“Oh, probably about 40 in the past year,” he answered.
For years, the USPS has claimed “constitutional immunity” to the city’s parking laws. But after the KSL Investigators first shed light on the issue, digging through records, tracking citations and closely watching the parking patterns of Salt Lake City postal workers, both sides finally came together in a closed door meeting to try and hammer out a solution. Read more