Ypsilanti Residents Blast Mail Delivery Service

YPSILANTI (WWJ/AP) - Hundreds of residents in a southeast Michigan town are complaining of haphazard mail deliveries that arrived days late or not at all, threatening their health and family finances.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell held a town hall meeting Thursday, where more than 300 people shared their individual experiences with the Ypsilanti post office and heard from U.S. Post Office representatives about potential solutions to ongoing issues.

Residents complain that mail carriers have failed to deliver prescription drugs and pension checks. Some also say their mailboxes have been damaged or destroyed by carriers' trucks, that telephone complaint lines were never answered and that postal managers were rude when residents visited the post office in person.

"Complaints include mail not being delivered on time, mail being delivered to the wrong address, long lines at the post office, late delivery of bills, medicine sitting in trucks, and dozens of other issues that my office has documented in letters to the Postmaster General," Dingell said in a statement.

Ypsilanti Postmaster Alicia Brown plans to hold monthly community meetings "so it won't get to this level."

Residents who continue to have issues with mail delivery should contact USPS Detroit at 313-226-8607.

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