DAMAGE AT NORTH HOUSTON USPS BUILDING CONTINUES TO HAVE EFFECT ON MAIL SERVICES
Mail services continue to move at a slow pace, following storm damage to a United States Postal Service (USPS) facility in north Houston.
The processing and distribution facility resumed partial operations Sunday, after a section of its roof collapsed Thursday due to heavy rains from Tropical Storm Imelda. The building is the largest sorting facility in the country.
Services in and around Brenham and Washington County have seen delays due to the building’s closure.
According to the emergency management agency for Jasper, Newton, and Sabine Counties in east Texas, the post office annexes designated to take the load from the main sorting facility are also closed because of the storm. It is not known how long they will be closed.
In the meantime, mail is being sent to Corpus Christi and Austin for handling and sorting. Dallas has also been alerted that it may need to help sort Houston mail.
The agency’s Facebook post from Saturday said the postal service is working to lease other spaces and bring sorting machines from around the country to get mail sorted and moving.
Services are suspended at post offices within ZIP codes 775xx through 777xx. In addition, an embargo has been placed on Priority Mail Express in ZIP codes 770xx through 778xx.
A statement from the USPS Monday said more than 2,100 postal employees are working around-the-clock at the Houston facility, in order to quickly restore full services. It said it is processing all mail and packages as quickly as it can, and any items customers are expecting will delivered as soon as possible.
Mailed a package on the 15th, priority two day mail to Arlington, Tx. They tell me it is in that distribution center and tracking, says it is on the way to its final destination. Wonder when.
OSHA is not going to allow anyone enter areas of this building until those areas are deemed safe. This is a huge center. It is a regional service center. I myself am frustrated because we get only local flyers, no real mail. That started yesterday. I have complained many times about the postal service but I cannot find fault on this issue, Likely communication could be better but there are issues concerning safety that still have to be answered. We do not need someone telling us we will have service restored by such and such day only to be disappointed. It is what it is, a collapsed roof/support structure on a huge major mail center. Mail is supposedly being rerouted to other centers so we should get back to near normal soon. I live in the greater Houston area and we have the same issues folks in Washington County have.
I am in the 77056 zip code area. No mail in over a week. USPS needs to bring in help and get the mail delivered. I am a business with a weekly payroll to process and I have not received any checks. This is so frustrating!
I did 33 years st usps and things are disorganized when everything is going well so I know they cannot handle any Disaster like this because you got people who cant even run a 1.50 cent corn dog stand at the county fair in charge.
Be safe whatever you do .
I haven’t got mail in a couple days in Katy and informed delivery is not working either
6 Days no mail in Katy….. I don’t think they are being completely forthcoming in how badly it has impacted the area.