"Officials are investigating a post office in Marion after receiving multiple complaints regarding lost or damaged mail and reports of letters and packages scattered along U.S. 2. ...found pieces of mail scattered along U.S. 2, and other residents reported picking up mail off the ground near their mailboxes. Among the complaints were reports and photos of a white pickup delivering mail in the truck bed, either uncovered or with the tailgate missing.
“We observed [the route driver] consistently carrying the mail/packages in an open, uncovered pickup truck bed on the highway regardless of weather,” Marion resident Ellen Stone told the Inter Lake in a message on social media. ...Postmaster Keira Baldwin, who oversees the Marion post office remotely from another post office in Kila, declined to comment...“Our office has been informed that the highway contractor for this route has removed the carrier from the route, a new carrier has started, and that a secure, enclosed vehicle is now being used.” "
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