I mean, we were always the best mail service in the world. “It concerns me because it affects, actually, our democracy. Many worried whether their medications would be delivered on time.ĭozens more fretted about whether the Postal Service could deliver hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots in time for the Nov. As mail delivery times climbed throughout the summer, the state attorney general’s office fielded dozens of complaints and concerns related to medication delivery through the U.S. “For whatever reason, political, whatever, it’s always the people on the side, the fringes that suffer the consequences.”īrunson wasn’t the only one worried. “Gets to be real serious when the mail is being used,” he said. He worries, he said, about those left behind. But he worries about others who rely on the mail out of necessity, whether for medication, Social Security checks or the upcoming 2020 election. So, I said, ‘OK, we’ll wait until this mail thing gets straightened out.’”īrunson said he has the means and health to be able to wait. “Fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me. Now, he’s decided to get his medications at a local pharmacy, even though it will cost him double every time he needs a refill. That process normally took two to three days.
Postal Service, Brunswick County resident Robert Brunson had already suffered the consequences.Ī diabetic, Brunson regularly ordered his medication online through a mail-order pharmacy.
By the time headlines across the country began to detail concerns over the U.S.
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