Because of email issues and other problems on the Gazette editor’s side, there is little to report this week about any official inquiry into the problems at the Wake Forest Post Office. However, there is hope that Sen. Thom Tillis’ Raleigh office will be able to help soon.
Mail delivery remains late for many and the complaints continue. There was one happy ending this week. Last week the Gazette talked about a couple expecting a big package from Best Buy, the big present for their son. They tracked the package and knew it was out for delivery but then it was reported as undeliverable. Since they have a single-family house in Heritage where they have had package deliveries, they were stunned. There was no help when they called the post office, but when the mother went to the post office and asked a clerk to find the package she was able to do so.
The current manager at the post office has said she is hiring to help alleviate the shortage of mail route drivers. Let us hope that a number of people apply and are accepted.
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My brief post on Nextdoor has resulted in an avalanche of complaints – over 65 at this writing – ranging from late deliveries left unprotected from vandalism and weather to ruined packages stuffed in mailboxes, lost mail, misdelivered mail and messed up hold mail requests.
One respondent did explain all this as a result of the Holiday rush, but was quickly answered by folks who have experienced these problems for years.
All agree that personal contacts with the counter and delivery people have been cordial, but so far the problems continue.
I will be 70 in February and have lived in Wake Forest since I was 9 years old When we first moved to WF the mail came around 12:00 Then it started coming around 3:00 an gradually determined to the sorry stat it is in now..I don’dt think the proble is the retiring post master but more likely the to big a territory for the # of carriers. Makeingall mail carriers full time with all benefits would probly