Dead letters

Firm seeks payment for damaged mail - 12/22/2008

An area printer says 3,365 envelopes he mailed to Medicaid subscribers were destroyed and returned three weeks later in hampers along with a withered orange, a bottle of joint ointment, trash and more.

Veteran puts his stamp on revamped mail operations - 12/19/2008

In some ways, the $300 million, 930,000-square-foot U.S. Postal Service's processing center in Southwest Philadelphia was always Jim Gallagher's baby.

New director Gallagher tours SW mail facility - 12/18/2008

Last night, U.S. Rep. Bob Brady said he was convinced that his pal Jim Gallagher was cleaning up the Southwest Philadelphia mail-processing center after a nearly three-hour "walk-and-talk" tour the two took yesterday afternoon.

Mail abruptly stops at tainted postal plant - 12/17/2008

Where's the Christmas mail, the packages, cards? On what is normally one of the biggest mail days of the year, there was no mail at the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service's processing plant in Southwest Philadelphia.

Brady cancels request for processing center probe - 12/17/2008

Yesterday, U.S. Rep. Robert Brady rescinded his request for the Government Accounting Office to investigate the Postal Service processing plant in Southwest Philadelphia. The Postal Service's new regional director, Jim Gallagher, assured Brady that mail problems at the plant would be resolved, said Brady spokeswoman Karen Warrington.

Postal workers & customers see progress in mail flow - 12/16/2008

The mail is starting to move again, say postal workers and customers. No longer are hundreds of overflowing bins of unprocessed mail blocking passageways inside the U.S. Postal Service's processing plant on Lindbergh Boulevard near Island Avenue, postal workers told the Daily News yesterday.

Office snooping pays off - 12/15/2008

The announcement in late August that the U.S. Postal Service planned to transfer 162 mail clerks made no sense to veteran postal worker Nick Casselli.

Mailroom screwups leave vets without medications - 12/12/2008

Jesse Hill, a Vietnam vet from Levittown, waited more than five weeks for his mail-order prescriptions to arrive at his Levittown home. They never did. His drugs, like 1,400 other veterans' prescriptions, disappeared at the chronically understaffed Postal Service processing plant in Southwest Philadelphia.

 

Brady calls for probe of processing center - 12/12/2008

U.S. Rep Bob Brady has called for an investigation of the Southwest Philadelphia Postal Service's processing plant by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Mail dumped to thwart probe? - 12/11/2008

Megan Brennan, the Postal Service's regional v.p., wanted to see the hundreds of overflowing mail bins and allegedly falsified mail-volume reports. But a trucking firm had just hauled away 19 tons of "waste" mail to be destroyed.

Union: 'A lot' of late, lost mail found by inspectors - 12/10/2008

Postal inspectors, who are investigating delayed and missing mail and allegedly phony daily mail counts, have discovered "a lot" of late, unprocessed mail at the Southwest Philly processing plant, a postal-union president said yesterday.

New postal manager says he'll work with unions to meet goals - 12/09/2008

The newly appointed regional postal manager has two goals: to serve customers better and improve working conditions at the U.S. Postal Service's troubled processing plant in Southwest Philadelphia.

Postal Service's new Philly manager to meet with union prez - 12/08/2008

The U.S. Postal Service apparently is taking complaints of postal workers and customers seriously, after five days of Daily News stories about lost and missing mail and chaos at the processing plant in Southwest Philadelphia.

Postal Service manager canned - 12/06/2008

The Postal Service has shaken up its Philadelphia-area management following Daily News stories about late and missing deliveries.

Local post offices say the mail is not going through there, either - 12/05/2008

Conditions at some local post offices mirror the problems at the U.S. Postal Service's processing plant in Southwest Philadelphia, according to letter carriers and a supervisor.

Docs blast delays in the mails - 12/04/2008

The Postal Service's weeks-late and missing-mail problems are causing havoc with the medical diagnosis of some patients - and businesses' livelihoods.

Complaints about service piling up - like mail that isn't being delivered - 12/03/2008

Delayed and missing mail is a major headache and a drain in the pocket for many Center City banks, law firms and other businesses - even the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.

News, meds, invites lost in alleged mail fiasco - 12/02/2008

Retired public school teachers Joseph and Barbara Downey say they waited weeks to receive mailed prescriptions - long after their critical medications ran out.

Left at the post: Where mail goes to die - 12/01/2008

Late deliveries. Lost mail, and in some cases, even destroyed.

Those are the allegations by several employees and a manager at the Postal Service's regional distribution plant.