20 state attorneys general sue over Postal Service slowdown
A group of 20 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Thursday over a slowdown in mail delivery that began this month.The attorneys general filed their complaint against the Postal Regula…
thehill.com
Package costs have been increased since August and first-class mail can now take up to five days to be delivered to an address in the United States, compared to the previous three-day standard.
The other attorneys general who signed onto the lawsuit are from California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Rhode Island, Washington and Washington, D.C.
A relative mailed me an envelope from Pgh to my house in Nashville recently. It took 8 business days, including one Saturday to get here. Homing pigeon would have been days quicker. And today again like yesterday, I threw in the garbage every mailing from my mailbox into the garbage excepting one letter. USPS is nothing but a huge subsidy to mass marketers.
