A Washington Post examination of Postal Service data and interviews with nearly a dozen current and former employees showed that workers scanned millions of packages with incorrect delivery-designation codes — claiming that a customer’s driveway was blocked or that the recipient was not home, for example, when in fact the package never left the post office.
The problematic scans are among several practices that have drawn attention recently, as the Postal Service grapples with cost-cutting measures introduced by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and prepares for an unprecedented flood of mail-in ballots for the November election. DeJoy’s policies, some of which have been halted by federal judges, have been cited by independent experts and Democrats in Congress as causing widespread delays in first-class deliveries.
Postal workers said in interviews that they have been pressured by their bosses to perform false scans increasingly over the past six months so that late packages appear to have been delivered — or are delayed because of issues at the delivery address — to ensure they don’t count against the agency’s delivery statistics.
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it happens daily in our office- supervisors scanning as delivered or “no Acess” to stop the clock. Its to prevent them from being on a telecom the next day!
This is common and has been for years. It may be one reason Amazon started pulling parcels from the USPS. A rouge carrier may do it occasionally if they miss one, but there is and has been an accepted practice of doing it to kill the clock directed by management.
Where do I report this?
Two weeks ago I mailed 2 exact same packages at the same time, going to the same address in LA, CA. I signed up for text updates for both tracking numbers. One package seemed to get scanned at every juncture while the other one was never scanned into the USPS system until it arrived in LA and both were delivered the next day, effectively reducing delivery time for 1 of the packages to less than 24 hours. I still have all of the text updates from both packages.
Call up Amazon and tell them they should deliver their own parcels.
Trust me, they can’t.
Amazon is a bigger shit hole then the USPS.
Why don’t you get off your ass and go out and buy something.
We are forced to go out everyday and work.
You lazy tools in CA are most the problem.
This has been going on for years. Mismanagers and stupidvisors order
employees to scan mail as delivered when it hasn’t left the PO in order
to get their “numbers” for their pay for performance bonus. Lie, cheat, steal,
These toolbags are immoral, unethical unhuman beings who would stop at
nothing for a dollar. Fire them all.
So there are corrupt carriers, too?
It’s just not management that is corrupt?
Yeah but they fire corrupt carriers.
They promote corrupt management.