SAN ANTONIO - Some gifts may be missing under the Christmas Tree next week. Hundreds of thousands of packages have been sitting in mail facilities here in San Antonio for more than a week.
It is one of the most exciting mornings of the year for children, opening the gifts Santa left them. But imagine some of those gifts never made it under the tree because they were sitting in a US Postal Service building in San Antonio, just waiting to be delivered.
That is exactly what a federal report from the Office of the Inspector General for the US Postal Service warned the agency about just a few weeks ago.
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So how does that make one post office whistleblower feel?
“Terrible! When it's my job. Ah, my job. It's our jobs. We dedicate ourselves every day to come in and do our jobs,” said the whistleblower.
But the images we received inside the mail facility on i-10 in Converse, taken just last week, show a huge backup of mail. We are told the mail is from San Antonio and other Texas cities. Whistleblowers tell us it’s hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail.
“We love our customers. We do this every day - rain, shine, snow, sleet. We are here for them. But for them, for management to do this is wrong. It is morally wrong,” said the whistleblower.
Postal employees say they know this will impact not only on the delivery of Christmas gifts, but on other pieces of mail.
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