VASHON, Wash. — The U.S. Postal Service is confirming for KOMO 4 News that hundreds of pieces of mail have been lost after going to a Seattle area processing center.
It was mail sent from Vashon Island from March 1 to March 3, dropped at three locations near downtown Vashon.
At Island Lumber, contractors and others who get billed later were not paying their bills.
“We started receiving phone calls,” said Island Lumber administrator Gina Davis, “and customers coming in wanting to know where their statements were.”
The Vashon Post Office Postmaster is confirming two and a half days of mail – from rent checks to mortgage payments, personal letters to utility payments and more – is lost. The mail made it off the island to a processing center on the mainland, and then vanished.
U.S. mail lost from Vashon Island, WA creating havoc
I can remember a truck load of Soc Sec checks that never made it…
This is not surprising, they handle our mail now too, since Everett Wa was closed. We never know when we will see the mail. It now takes a week for a letter sent from our town to come to it. Very poor service and no one cares.
That is how we operate. To many people get promoted prior to learning there present job. That is the problem with the entire system. From the PMG down to the floor supervisor. The area offices is the biggest joke of all. Some area VP’s have fake PhD’s an do not have a clue. Then they bring in their brother’s and their travel spouses. Legal corruption at its best.
This is exactly what happens when the postmaster general came up with the “brilliant” idea to consolidate mail-processing centers and claims the postal service is over-staffed. He is destroying mail service to the American people and destroying decent jobs for military veterans. The American people should be outraged!
It’s all about service, isn’t it? Guess what’s in store in the future as more people are hired off the street for 16 bucks an hour. Management tells the new CCA’s time is everything and don’t pay attention to accuracy, but deny it when cornered. We have a 204-B who was a terrible CCA – yeah, she was fast but there was no telling what mail would end up in what box, and she didn’t give a shit. Now because she’s hot and shakes her ass she’s inside complaining about how other CCA’s mishandle mail when she doesn’t have the slightest fucking idea how to do it herself. To her all mail she brought back – ANK, UBBM, UTF, NSN, forwards, etc. went into the CFS slot. She never stopped doing that and got mad when regulars tried to tell her how to handle mark up mail. Now I have to take orders from practically a kid who was a disaster on the street. She’ll go far.