Delayed mail delivery has become an annoyance for many people across the country.
In Minnesota, the issue became so bad that facilities in Bemidji, Apple Valley, Eagan and New Brighton all were audited by the inspector general in the last year after politicians called for improvements. Those audits found hundreds of job vacancies, tens of thousands of pieces of delayed mail and a range of operations issues, such as declining property conditions, improperly scanned packages and lost mail keys, which could lead to mail theft.