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B-114874 1 (1974-03-12)

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             COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                      WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


B-114874                                           1 2 1974


The Honorable Paul G. Rogers                          lIIlll\\(l\ llll\
House of Representatives
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Dear Mr. Rogers:

     Your letter of July 31, 1973, requested that we determine
whether the United States Postal Service's monitoring system     C
verifies a continued delay in mail delivery in Florida as
evidenced by an increase in complaints received by your office.
You also asked what the Postal Service has done to rectify
the problems with Florida's mail service cited in our May 2,
1973, report to you, particularly the    c
ice personnel in Florida since January 1973 and the Postal
Service's evaluation of the effect of area mail processing
on mail delivery times.

     With respect to your principal concern, we found that
the Postal Service's monitoring system did verify some con-
tinued delay in delivery service in southern Florida. Al-
though delivery service of the Miami Post Office improved
significantly, problems associated with the startup of the new
Fort Lauderdale facility caused delayed delivery in that area.

     The following sections of this report present our find-
ings on

     --current delivery performance,
     --problems affecting this performance,
     --the Area Mail Processing Program,1 and
     --corrective actions taken by the Postal Service.

To obtain this information we examined Postal Service records;
interviewed headquarters, Southern region, and Florida postal
officials; and visited the Miami and Fort Lauderdale Post
Offices.



'The Area Mail Processing Program is designed to gather mail
from small post offices for mechanized processing at larger
facilities.

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