Rep. Angie Craig Continues to Raise Concerns as Postal Service Performance in Minnesota Declines Again in FY25 Q1
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig announced that the USPS Office of Inspector General has reported another decline in service levels in the Minnesota region during Q1 of FY2025.
According to the USPS Office of the Inspector General, the service standard for first-class two-day service in the Minnesota-North Dakota region has gotten worse – with only 79% of mail arriving on time, 8 points below USPS’ national target of 87%.
In FY24 Q4, the region saw 84.1% arriving on time and ranked 39th in the nation for two-day service. Now it ranks 38th.
“With the first quarterly report of 2025, we’re seeing yet again that USPS service continues to get worse. It’s past time for USPS to re-evaluate their leadership and find a strategy that works for Minnesota,” said Rep. Craig. “I’m continuing to push USPS to do its job and reject any proposal from the Administration that would privatize the Postal Service.”
Rep. Craig has been sounding the alarm on unacceptable USPS performance in the South Metro for years and has led the charge to improve mail service and protect USPS from privatization. Local letter carriers and others have been raising the alarm for the past year over leadership changes that are impacting morale and culture in Minnesota post offices.
Last month, she introduced the bipartisan Protect Our Letter Carriers Act, which would protect postal workers from violent crimes, and in January, she led a resolution urging her Congressional colleagues to take all appropriate measures to reject the privatization of USPS.
Last year, following Rep. Craig’s bipartisan call for a statewide investigation, the USPS OIG announced an investigation of the entire MN-ND postal district.
And in January 2023, she launched an online USPS survey to gauge the extent of postal issues in the Second District and received more than 3,300 responses from Minnesotans. Rep. Craig delivered those responses directly to Postmaster General DeJoy’s office in Washington DC.
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