Sen. Jon Ossoff asks for federal probe after court mail goes undelivered in Fulton County
U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is calling on the U.S. Postal Service Inspector General to investigate the months-long mail delivery problems in Georgia.
On Tuesday, Ossoff joined Fulton County Clerk of Courts Ché Alexander on the steps of Fulton County Superior Court, where they stood next to several bins they said were full of returned mail.
Alexander said that earlier this month, she received more than 1,100 pieces of mail that the U.S. Postal Service had marked as “returned to sender,” including some originally postmarked years ago.
The correspondence ranges from eviction notices to court orders granting bond, meaning mail delays could be contributing to overcrowding at the beleaguered Fulton County Jail.
“There’s nothing that we can go back and do,” Alexander said. “I can’t go back and say ‘Oh well he wasn’t properly noticed and he shouldn’t have been evicted,’ because the damage is already done.”
Ossoff says that’s why he’s calling on Inspector General Tammy Hull to step in.
“This and everything that Georgians have been dealing with for the last six months demonstrate the urgent need for much more intense, much more robust, and much more sustained oversight of the U.S. Postal Service and its management,” Ossoff said.
Ossoff has already held several Senate hearings questioning Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s handling of the new processing center in Palmetto, where delays began shortly after it came online.
Recent stats released by the post office show that on-time delivery for first-class mail is at 80%. Earlier this year, it hit a low of 36%.
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