Guam – The United States Postal Service wants to set the record straight for postal customers with home delivery. The confusion was a result of the issuance of letters from the department to island residents notifying them of their correct location addresses.

According to USPS corporate communications specialist Duke Gonzales they are aware that some customers who received address notifications are seeing villages attached to their addresses that they do not identify with as their home village. As we reported many villages seem to have been eliminated such as Sinajana which is now classified as Hagatna while Piti is now Santa Rita. Mayor Robert Hoffman says this was attributed to maps received from Public Works but the agency’s director Carl Dominguez says he and his staff are puzzled by this and wants proof that they provided documentation.

“All of a sudden I have been instructed by the post office to change it to Santa Rita but when I looked at the map of my house of 31 years it clearly says its in Asan/Piti so I would like to ask the post office how they came what documentation they received from DPW that my house is in Santa Rita not in Piti,” he said.

Gonzales says the reason behind this is that Guam’s zip codes were consolidated back in 2001 from 21 different zip codes down to 13. Effective that date one of the changes made were consolidating Hagatna, Agana Heights, Asan, Sinajana and Mongmong into the 96910 zip code with Hagatna as the city destination. Ordot-Chalan Pago mayor Jesse Gogue says for residents of his village to identify as Hagatna does not make sense, telling KUAM News, “If they are going to incorporate the adjustment of their zip code system to acknowledge the existence of multiple districts we are not the ones who modified the zip code system.