Over the past week, a few anonymous postal workers in the Caldwells have confirmed there are problems with the mail delivery timing and also reported the schedule and work load for carriers and even window personnel has been what they call “stressful”.

One Essex Fells resident sitting in Rockn’ Joes yesterday said, “I did not get my mail Monday at all. And now I got my mail last night at 7 o’clock.”

Mail carriers, it turns out, seem to feel they have been overwhelmed with their work load and carrier routes, and have often times late delivering the mail.

“The carriers have been struggling for a while now,” said one anonymous source, who has worked in the post office in West Essex for numerous years. “Now they are being told to deliver to their regular route, which could be say 200 addresses, and then stay and deliver another route.”

This, the post officer worker explained, is why mail is late or even getting mixed up or not delivered on occasion. The work load is allegedly becoming too tough for the carriers, who are exhausted and then are told to stay for another few hours and keep deliver

via Caldwells and Essex Fells mail delivery problems reported by residents and carriers – Montclair.