No mail delivery for a week - Charlottesville

[Yonnie3]

Other people in Charlottesville say their mail delivery has been OK. Any local DUer's in the area getting their mail OK?

We had a pile of mail put in our box Tuesday (7/18) and only one was addressed to us and about ten items were not addressed to us. I bundled them with a note saying they were wrongly delivered and put the flag up on the box. The flag is still up.

I do see a mail truck come through the neighborhood after dark and the carrier seems to be delivering parcels, so hopefully my neighbors are getting their prescriptions.

Senator Warner has pushed the USPS to do better on several occasions. The latest I am aware of was in April. https://www.nbc29.com/2022/04/14/sen-warner-is-back-charlottesville-push-usps-delays/

The post office doesn't ever answer the phone and the counter workers will not go in back and search a weeks worth of mail to find yours.

I did the only thing I could figure out to do and filed out a contact on Sen. Warner's website asking him to push some more.

If they don't have enough employees I don't see why they don't schedule the carriers to work alternating days on different routes instead of letting a single route have no service. Typically a carrier has a regular route so I'm wondering if they can refuse another route? We haven't had a regular carrier since well before the pandemic, so this is nothing new. Now that there is a week's backlog of unsorted mail it will take significant manpower to catch up.

Edit to add: I did redeliver the mail addressed to houses on my block. Some of the letters were to a vacant house that I'm certain that the former resident has filed a change of address form.