Bend post office delivers mail on Sunday amid complaints about no ballots or other mail for the past three days

[RandySF]

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – After several Bend-area residents contacted NewsChannel 21 about not receiving any mail for the past three days – including their much-awaited ballots - the U.S. Postal Service told us that Bend post office workers were out delivering mail on Sunday in a bid to catch up on their election-related and other workload.

Two people who contacted NewsChannel 21 on Sunday said they (and in one case at least eight neighbors) had not received any mail for the past three days. One lives just east of Bend on Obsidian Avenue, near Ward Road, and the other in the River Rim neighborhood in southwest Bend, near Elk Meadow Elementary School.

Another person who contacted us on Facebook asked us to look into "why there was no mail delivery to much of (the) 97702 ZIP Code either Friday or Saturday? We have folks awaiting ballots, checks, RX meds."

A resident of Woodside Ranch in southern Bend said they received no mail Thursday or Friday, and found "quite a few Bend residents are in the same boat." But they later told us they did receive mail Saturday evening, including their ballots.




https://ktvz.com/news/government-politics/2024/10/20/bend-post-office-delivers-mail-on-sunday-amid-complaints-about-no-ballots-or-other-mail-for-the-past-three-days/

[Farmgirl1961]

1. We are missing a couple of days of mail... including our ballots...

I put in a complaint to the USPS and also posted it to our local Neighborwatch...apparently this is fairly widespread...and a number of mailboxes have been broken into and mail stolen. Geez!

If we don't get our ballots soon, we'll pick up replacement ones, vote and then hand deliver them back to the county clerk. I was also waiting on someone from DU to send me some postcard stamps for the 200 postcards I've written. I have no idea where they are in the system... Oh well -- I'm gonna get them out one way or another.

[Tree Lady]

2. we haven't got our ballots in Medford yet

I am not happy, they knew this would be a problem. I have zero trust in usps these days.

I got home from vacation last month gone 3 weeks mail on hold, along with my mail was mail for two different neighbors both who were waiting for it.