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Jun
11
2019
Report Number:
DRT-AR-19-002
Report Type:
Audit Reports
Category: Service Performance, Delivery / Mail Processing

Delivery and Customer Service Issues – Silverado Station, Las Vegas, NV

Background

This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of Delivery and Customer Service Issues – Silverado Station, Las Vegas, NV. Our objective was to assess retail and mail delivery service on selected routes at the Silverado Station – Las Vegas, Nevada. This audit was designed to provide Postal Service management with timely information on potential delivery and customer service risks at Silverado Station.

The Silverado Station is in the Nevada-Sierra District of the Western Area. The Silverado Station had 57 city routes and 13 rural routes servicing over 51,000 delivery points. Additionally, it provides retail and post office (PO) Box services to customers over four retail counters and 1,174 PO Boxes. We selected the Silverado Station based on our analysis of Enterprise Customer Care (eCC), Carriers Returning After 1800, Retail Customer Experience, and wait-time-in-line (WTIL) data. The Silverado Station had 1,971 eCC customer cases between July 1, 2018 and February 28, 2019. Roughly 88 percent of the eCC customer complaints were related to mail and packages not received or being delivered to the wrong address. 

Report Recommendations

# Recommendation Status Value Initial Management Response USPS Proposed Resolution OIG Response Final Resolution
1

R - 1 -- Instruct unit management to follow retail operations policy and procedures for effectively managing customer wait time in line.

Closed $0 Agree
2

R - 2 -- Instruct unit management to submit work orders to repair post office mail boxes to ensure they are repaired and request corrective action on residential cluster boxes to restore delivery.

Closed $0 Agree
3

R - 3 -- Instruct unit management to ensure staff follow delivery and standard operating procedures for scanning mail pieces.

Closed $0 Agree