WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tina Smith, John Hoeven, Amy Klobuchar and Kevin Cramer led the Minnesota and North Dakota congressional delegations in sending a bipartisan letter pressing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to improve postal services in the Minnesota-North Dakota District.
The letter comes after the Postal Service’s Inspector General audited the District and found 130,858 missing or delayed pieces of mail at six post offices over the course of only two days. The lawmakers also requested regular updates from the Postal Service on their progress in implementing these recommendations.
“It has long been clear that postal operations in the District are in trouble, and the investigation confirms this,” said the lawmakers. “We need to ensure that the OIG’s recommendations are fully implemented and actually result in significantly improved mail delivery and services across our states.”
Smith and Klobuchar requested the audit of the Minnesota-North Dakota Postal District in December, as did the entire Minnesota House delegation in January. Hoeven, Cramer, and Congressman Armstrong requested an audit in February.
Smith, Hoeven and Klobuchar introduced the bipartisan Postal Delivery Accountability Act, which would address USPS’ failure to accurately track when mail routes do not receive deliveries. The legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Angie Craig.
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