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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KCBS) - Low income San Francisco residents who live in residential hotels don't get direct mail service.
The City Attorney is threatening to sue the U.S. Postal Service if it doesn't change its practice.
The postal service acknowledges that mail is dropped off at the residential hotels in one single pile and is not separated and put into individual lock boxes. For tenants at the low income housing complexes as well as City Attorney Dennis Herrera, that's a big problem. "There are folks who have been diagnosed with cancer and they didn't receive their diagnosis until a year later," explained Herrera. "Folks who get disability payments and checks that they rely on to live that they haven't received. These are direct impacts on people."
The post office says it is national postal service policy to not deliver mail to individuals at hotels. Herrera says the policy is wrong because it is discriminatory and wrecks havoc on the lives of the most vulnerable.
He's sent a formal letter of demand to the U.S. Attorney to change the policy, and says he'll file a lawsuit if that doesn't happen.
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