{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-angie-craig-blasts-usps-after-q4-report-ranks-mn-postal-performance-one", "Rep. Angie Craig Blasts USPS after Q4 Report Ranks MN Postal Performance One of the Worst in the Country", "2025-12-02", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Angie Craig", "C001119", "craig.house.gov", "craig", "https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig blasted U.S. Postal Service (USPS) leadership in Minnesota following the release of the USPS Office of Inspector General\u2019s (OIG) Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) 4th quarter (Q4) service performance report, which ranked the MN-ND District 47th out of 50 nationwide.\n\nAccording to the USPS OIG, the service standard for first-class two-day service in the Minnesota-North Dakota region has declined since last quarter \u2013 with only 82% of mail arriving on time, 5 points below USPS\u2019 national target of 87%. The national average this quarter was 86.3%.\n\nIn FY25 Q3, the region saw 84.4% of mail delivered on time and ranked 32nd in the nation for two-day service.\n\n\u201cHere in Minnesota, we started the year with unacceptable postal performance levels, and we\u2019re ending with yet another startling quarterly report that puts our region in the bottom four districts nationwide,\u201d said Rep. Craig. \u201cThis is beyond unacceptable. It\u2019s well past time for USPS to re-evaluate their local leadership and start ensuring that letter carriers and postal workers have what they need to get Minnesotans their mail on time.\u201d\n\nRep. Craig has consistently spoken out against unacceptable USPS performance in the South Metro and has led the charge to improve mail service and protect USPS from privatization. Local letter carriers and others have also raised the alarm about leadership changes that are impacting morale and culture in Minnesota post offices.\n\nThis Congress, Rep. Craig introduced her Deliver for Democracy Act, which would limit price increases on stamps until the USPS can achieve at least a 95% on-time delivery rate for periodicals and require the USPS to report annually to the U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission on its progress \u2013 including on-time delivery data for newspapers in its periodical service performance measurement.\n\nIn October, Rep. Craig successfully pushed USPS to launch an internal investigation into reports of delayed delivery of the New Prague Times. And in January, she led a resolution urging her Congressional colleagues to take all appropriate measures to reject the privatization of USPS.\n\nLast year, following Rep. Craig\u2019s bipartisan call for a statewide investigation, the USPS OIG announced an investigation into the entire MN-ND postal district.\n\nAnd 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\u2019s office in Washington DC.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-angie-craig-blasts-usps-after-q4-report-ranks-mn-postal-performance-one"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7020420636981726, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}