Congressman Bill Huizenga is seeking answers from the U.S. Postmaster General about problems reported with the delivery of mail in parts of west Michigan.
Huizenga tells us his office started getting complaints about late or undelivered mail back in 2023, related to the U.S. Postal Service realignment of sort and delivery centers. He says there are now signs that realignment is particularly affecting mail in the Kalamazoo area.
“We had seen a diminishing casework about that, about the mail, until more recently, and that has picked up,” Huizenga said. “So we’re preparing a widely distributed call for information from our constituents. It’s going to be going out via email.”
Kalamazoo area state Representative Julie Rogers wrote to Huizenga’s office late last month, saying in the weeks following the holidays, her office began receiving reports of irregular mail deliveries that have grown into “widespread concern.” Huizenga says all of these issues go back to COVID.
“We know that there is truckloads, literally, of mail that still are getting processed from those timeframes, and we know that because there’s some federal forms that are still getting processed.”
Huizenga says he’s been given different explanations for the issue, some of which he thinks are more believable than others.
In his letter to Postmaster General David Steiner, he asks for a restoration of dependable service in the area. Huizenga says it seems the Postal Service simply never fully recovered from the COVID era.
