While President Trump leaves office Jan. 20, the man he tapped as Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, will remain in that job, and a top official of the largest postal union covering New York and New Jersey said that while the financial squeeze faced by the United States Postal Service has eased a bit, other problems including delivery delays persist.
"People are trying desperately to catch up," Chuck Zlatkin, the legislative and political director of the New York Metro Area Postal Union, said in a phone interview. "The percentage of on-time delivery keeps going down, and people are pulling overtime shifts to try to deal with the backlog."
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