Later Start for Postal Carriers Means Later Mail

Re “Carriers to Follow New Start Time to the Letter,” May 18:

Postal Service spokeswoman Terri Bouffiou seems to have all the answers; however, she has failed simple mathematics. Most offices have enough volume to keep carriers busy all morning. Therefore, if they start an hour later, it’s only obvious that they will leave for the street an hour later.

The fact that carriers allegedly are now sorting only 30% (as opposed to 70%) of the mail isn’t something that happened overnight but was implemented quite a while ago. The 70% that is supposed to come already presorted is a number that’s rarely, if ever, achieved. The carriers are at the mercy of the incompetence of a processing plant that answers to no one.

Bouffiou also fails to mention that starting times were already previously moved from 6:30 to 7:30, making the new times actually two hours later than what they once were. Even Superman would have difficulty recapturing that amount of time. Bouffiou states that carriers have “a great deal of control” over their routes. I wonder what planet she’s residing on. I don’t want to say that she is purposely deceiving the American public, so I can only sit back and marvel at her ignorance.

Alex May

Chino Hills

If my mail delivery gets any later, I’ll get my mail after 7 p.m. instead of after 6 p.m.

Emma Willsey

Huntington Beach