Memphis mail problems affect businesses and bills
Workers sort mail at the United States Postal Service’s North Memphis site. Albert Ruiz, a spokesman for the USPS region that includes Memphis, says much of the mail-delay problem is due to a labor shortage. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
Months after a Postal Service slowdown in first-class mail delivery, the USPS estimate of 2.7 days to deliver parcels and letters doesn’t match what we heard from readers.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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