Post Office Woes Closer to Being Solved

For the past several weeks, community-wide mail delivery in Churchill County has suffered for multiple reasons. As with many organizations, there is a shortage of employees at our local Fallon Post Office and when you add in several employees taking time off the schedules have to be adjusted to meet the daily staffing levels. 

According to local post office employees, there were four delivery drivers off at the same time during the past couple of weeks, but those four are all back and catching up with their routes. Additionally, several new hires are currently being processed and waiting for their start dates.

And, of course, heavy winter storms across the country have kept roads closed and impacted mail deliveries. During the past couple of weeks, as storms have raged across the Midwest shutting down interstates, as well as the heavy storming through the Sierras, mail has not been delivered to the Fallon Post Office on its regular schedule. Several advertising flyers and bulk mail were hung up in the weather but have now been received and are in the process of being delivered. 

Post office employees encourage anyone who has not had mail delivered or is missing mail to go to the post office with identification and pick up their mail at the office.