USPS Lying?

From JP:
"US customers complain post offices refusing mail delivery to Israel"

A number of local post offices in the United States have recently told customers that they are not accepting mail for delivery to Israel due to the conflict with Gaza, the Anti Defamation League reported on Thursday. The ADL has received complaints in recent days that local post offices in Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey were refusing to send mail to the Jewish state. “The postal employees have told these individuals that current USPS policy says that mail to Israel cannot be accepted because of the current crisis,” ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said.   “Only once employees sought clarification from supervisors in Washington did these post offices accept packages and letters to Israel,” he added. The ADL claimed that mail delivery was halted for 36 hours following the US Federal Aviation Authority's decision earlier this month to prohibit US airlines from flying to and from Ben-Gurion airport in light of the rocket threat from Gaza. However, with the lifting of the flight ban, mail delivery from the US to Israel was resumed. The ADL penned a letter to US Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe, stating that postal authorities in the local branches had misunderstood the temporary ban on delivery to Israel as permanent. The League urged the Postal Service to ensure that all of its employees are aware that mail delivery to Israel has not been suspended. The FAA ban on flights, and subsequent temporary halt in mail delivery, came on July 22 after a rocket fired from Gaza hit a home in Yehud, less than 5 kilometers from Ben-Gurion airport.
The US Postal Service said in response,"There was no authorized announcement of a temporary suspension of international mail dispatched abroad by the US Postal Service to Israel during the FAA flight suspension affecting Ben-Gurion International Airport on July 22 and 23.  During this period, the US Postal Service continued to dispatch abroad US Mail and packages addressed to Israel through transportation on cargo flights and other carriers that were authorized to fly to Ben-Gurion airport into Israel.  Any Post Office that might have turned away customers tendering mail addressed to Israel and dispatched by the US Postal Service during this time did so in error, and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience they experienced as a result."

^ You know how I feel about the USPS and how ineffective/unprofessional they have been throughout the years and this just enhances that previous opinion. You would think that the Postmaster General would open an investigation and find out which of his employees told their customers these lies and do something about it, but having deal with the USPS I don't think they will take this seriously or do anything about it. The organization and its employees don't seem to take their jobs seriously (long gone are the days of delivering the mail "through snow, rain, etc) and simply want to do as little as they can while at the same time constantly complain about how broke they are. ^


http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-customers-complain-post-offices-refusing-mail-delivery-to-Israel-371081