Detroit area USPS sorting facilities - Damage Reports?

[b86fiero]

Is anyone else seeing an uptick in reports of items arriving damaged after being processed through any of the Detroit area USPS sorting facilities within the past 3 weeks?  Bad enough packages regularly fall into the bottomless abyss of those facilities never to surface but the amount of damaged packages being reported by seller friends in MI and OH is becoming ridiculously high.    

I received another one today that literally had to be crushed by a forklift or purposely beaten with a hammer or other heavy object in order to damage the item.  This one was an almost unbreakable small piece of melamine serve ware wrapped in foam and double wrapped in bubble wrap placed inside a box with paper cushioning all around.

These Detroit facilities are well known for losing mail, taking a month or more to process mail and having a huge number of employees not show up for work.

So why can't the USPS clean up the mess going on there?

[oldwestgold]

Photograph and document everything. Communicate your problems to your Congressperson. I know in the Toledo area our Congressmen are working to resolve the problems with the Detroit mess. The solution most likely will not be fast but we have to continue to hammer back at these losers in Detroit screwing it up for other mail centers and Post Offices that care. My understanding is that less than 10% of the staff are showing up in the Detroit Processing Plants. They simply are milking the Government leave system. Thanks, Detroit USPS Processing Plant employees - for nothing! I'm a retired Postmaster and feel your pain. I apologize for your mail issues.