At 6:30 a.m., Wasserman Schultz was denied entry at the Miami Processing and Distribution Center 10 miles away by a local Postal Service official as two armed Postal Inspection Service officers stood in front of turnstiles in the lobby. ADADLawmakers in both the House and Senate have visited USPS facilities in recent weeks, saying they are asserting oversight responsibility of the agency after constituents, postal workers and internal postal performance data reported growing delays. “It was a notification.”But the Postal Service did not acknowledge that communication until hours later, Wasserman Schultz said, when a member of her staff reached a USPS official by phone. ADIt is one of the 671 high-speed sorting machines the Postal Service planned to remove over the summer, according to documents obtained by The Post. “Do you believe that it is the local handlers’ job to decide whether they need a sorting machine?” Wasserman Schultz asked.

Source: Washington Post September 04, 2020 17:06 UTC