To the Editor:
To Whom it Should Concern at the USPS
Please stop messing with my mail!
Let me remind you: Title 39 of the U.S. Code states that the Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities.
Unfortunately, your recent “transformative” initiative has had “unintended” consequences that impacted overall service levels.
Is it possible that these consequences, “unintended” or not; have resulted in an unacceptable degradation of the Postal Service, — which is also relied upon by many Americans for prescription refills, pension checks, and, we thought mail-in absentee ballots in November?
You have already warned many states that those transformative misadventures will likely make USPS compliance with state-mandated deadlines impossible to meet.
This may be another moment in history where “failure is not an option”. God help us if that is not also your goal.
Note that I am not suggesting that this is a local issue at USPO/Old Lyme.
Sincerely,
Thomas D. Gotowka,
Old Lyme.