USVI delegate requests investigation by USPS Inspector General
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| Published on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 |
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WASHINGTON, USA: After exhausting several different avenues to obtain improved postal service for the people of the US Virgin Islands, Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen has asked the US Postal Service’s Inspector General, David Williams to investigate the unacceptable level of USPS mail service in the territory.
In a letter co-signed with the Chairman of the Congressional House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and District of Columbia, Rep. Danny Davis, Christensen asked for the investigation; and a return of the practice of the US Virgin Islands processing of its own mail, instead of USVI mail being sent to Puerto Rico to be processed.
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| USVI Delegate to Congress Donna M. Christensen |
“Whether it is the extraordinary length of time it takes for packages and periodicals to get to customers or packages not being delivered at all, the situation has become intolerable,” Congresswoman Christensen wrote.
“These concerns include Priority Mail letters regularly taking more than a week to get to the territory from the mainland instead of the normal two to three days, misdirection and interception of Virgin Islands mail because of non-communication between the Post Office and law enforcement agencies and woefully inadequate staffing levels in the territory,” Christensen said.
The delegate has held a series of town meetings with residents in the territory to discuss the deplorable condition of mail service in the territory and has met repeatedly with regional officials in Puerto Rico and national officials in Washington who have failed to implement any meaningful changes to the system.
“I have repeatedly pointed out to the Postmaster General and others that the current system of consolidating mail processing in Puerto Rico has not worked for the Virgin Islands,” she said.
“Instead, it has turned the clock back on one of our vital communication links to the wider world,” she said.
Christensen requested that Williams get to the root causes of this disparate level of service. “Virgin Islands residents deserve better service and I am determined to see that we get it,” Christensen said. |
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