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Chicago USPS postmaster replaced following mounting calls for her resignation over mail delays [View all]
Chicago’s embattled postmaster has been replaced after months of outcry about mail delays, according to an internal announcement.
Wanda Prater, the leader of the U.S. Postal Service’s Chicago district, left that role Saturday following complaints from congressmen, aldermen and the local mail workers union about delivery delays. Taking the helm is Eddie Morgan Jr., who most recently served as postmaster of Kansas City, Mo.
The announcement follows a postal agency inspector general audit of four South Side USPS sites from September 2020 through January at the request of U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, a Chicago Democrat whose district includes the region. The Auburn Park, Henry McGee, Ashburn and James E. Worsham stations had a cumulative 62,866 letters, flats and packages delayed during investigators’ visits on Sept. 21 and 22, the report found.
Wanda Prater, the leader of the U.S. Postal Service’s Chicago district, left that role Saturday following complaints from congressmen, aldermen and the local mail workers union about delivery delays. Taking the helm is Eddie Morgan Jr., who most recently served as postmaster of Kansas City, Mo.
The announcement follows a postal agency inspector general audit of four South Side USPS sites from September 2020 through January at the request of U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, a Chicago Democrat whose district includes the region. The Auburn Park, Henry McGee, Ashburn and James E. Worsham stations had a cumulative 62,866 letters, flats and packages delayed during investigators’ visits on Sept. 21 and 22, the report found.
Morgan, the new postmaster, has been with the USPS for more than 22 years and began as a mail processing clerk in suburban Detroit before stints throughout the West and Midwest.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-wanda-prater-chicago-usps-postmaster-departs-20210617-vn6ekinuvzfydnzp67pj6ngxzq-story.html
The article also says that wanda prater will be reassigned to Milwaukee.
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