After Hours: No, It’s Not You—US Mail Delays Are Real (From the Archives)
Full Measure After Hours
Sharyl Attkisson
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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While investigating slow mail delivery, I unearthed disturbing details about what’s gone wrong with the US Postal Service.
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| 0:57.5 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 1:03.8 | I hope you enjoy this special from the archives edition of Full Measure After Hours. |
| 1:15.5 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours. Today, |
| 1:26.0 | no, it's not you, U.S. mail delays are real. I noticed in the past couple of years some extremely delayed mail coming to my house or other people |
| 1:29.2 | telling stories about first class letters that should be arriving. We thought in one to three |
| 1:34.3 | days that they were taking weeks or months. Sometimes we're not coming at all. We're being |
| 1:40.3 | returned even though they had been addressed to the proper address. |
| 1:45.1 | And I began asking around and hearing other people talk, |
| 1:48.0 | and I started to think this was pretty widespread. |
| 1:50.9 | And I began looking into it to find out what was behind this snail mail trend. |
| 1:56.7 | It turns out it's true, it's well documented, |
| 1:59.4 | and there are a number of reasons behind it, |
| 2:01.8 | which I get into in my Sunday, May 11th edition of Full Measure. |
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