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.”
