MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) - Michigan Senator Gary Peters held a press conference on Zoom on Tuesday to discuss the United States Postal Service.
The conference comes after an oversight hearing on the USPS, which focused on concerns about timely mail delivery, services, operations and finances.
The hearing stems as communities across the country continue to face ongoing delays in mail delivery.
The hearing also included proposed changes to the Postal Service's Network and how it would impact communities across Michigan and the United States.
"The Postal Service believes that they have a good plan," says Peters. "But we don't know it's a good plan until the data actually demonstrates that, and clearly, the data in Richmond and Atlanta are not demonstrating that it's a plan that delivers on-time performance while reducing cost. It's actually increasing cost and reducing time performance."
Peters adds that the delays are impacting communities in the Upper Peninsula.