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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,103 posts)
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 02:05 PM Sep 2020

Senate report finds 'significant' prescription drug delivery delays under Postmaster General Louis D

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON — A report released Wednesday by two Democratic senators found "significant and increasing delays" in the mail delivery of prescription drugs under the tenure of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

The lawmakers in charge of the investigation – Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts – said some of the nation's largest pharmacies told them they were experiencing, on average, delivery delays of 18-32%, meaning deliveries that would normally take 1-2 days would instead take 3-4 days, the report concluded.

The senators said the delays could pose "serious health risks to millions of Americans and (increase) costs for consumers and taxpayers."

Only one of the five companies surveyed by the senators' staff said they had not experienced "unusual" delays, but the company told the senators fewer than 1% of their packages are handled by "for end-to-end delivery."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-report-finds-significant-prescription-drug-delivery-delays-under-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy/ar-BB18RCYE?li=BBnba9O&ocid=DELLDHP

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Senate report finds 'significant' prescription drug delivery delays under Postmaster General Louis D (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
Trump & DeJoy actually killing Americans gohuskies Sep 2020 #1
All of the VA's Rx's were recently taken away from the USPS DENVERPOPS Sep 2020 #3
Kick dalton99a Sep 2020 #2
I go into panic mode if my meds are late. procon Sep 2020 #4
Drugs by mail Claire Oh Nette Sep 2020 #5
Count Me Among Them ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #6

gohuskies

(1,156 posts)
1. Trump & DeJoy actually killing Americans
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 02:09 PM
Sep 2020

The GOP is responsible for this carnage and letting it happen willingly.

DENVERPOPS

(8,843 posts)
3. All of the VA's Rx's were recently taken away from the USPS
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 02:46 PM
Sep 2020

and turned over to Fedex already. Of course Fedex took the business and the money, and then dumped the actual delivery back onto the USPS......

Rural America voted for Trump, and now they DARE to criticize the USPS for not caring about them ???????????
By the time the Trumphumpers realize he is screwing them over and throw them under the bus it will be wayyyyy to late.

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. I go into panic mode if my meds are late.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 03:08 PM
Sep 2020

Without them I can't breathe and that could means a call to 911 and a day trip to the ED with maybe an overnight stay. Last month they were late and just before I was off the the pharmacy for replacements, the meds arrived by mail. I'm going to order earlier than usual this month and hope my delivery gets here on time.

I don't blame the USPS, and my mail lady is the best, but Trump deserves to be pilloried for his latest fiasco.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
5. Drugs by mail
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 04:54 PM
Sep 2020

I use Blink Health for my prescriptions, and only just this May switched most of my meds (heart and cray-cray) to refill by mail BECAUSE WE WERE IN A PANDEMIC. First batch arrived in one package, four or five refills, about five business days after I requested them back in early June.

Ordered the same five refills, set up on auto-refill, again, because Corona, three weeks ago. Two arrived after seven business days.
Another arrived yesterday, a week later. Another is somewhere in transit.

The single minded focus on disparaging absentee ballots and causing a crisis of confidence on the Post Office totally ignored how many people rely on Rx by mail not just because of the pandemic, but because that's the cheaper way to go. Whatever they say about being smart medical consumers is bullshit. They just put a flunkie in place to run the Post Office into the ground because they know they aren't going to win. He's told us exactly what he'll do, and he really does not care how many people he screws over.

Can we get a class action suit against him for gross incompetence and ratfuckery?




ProfessorGAC

(65,112 posts)
6. Count Me Among Them
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 05:00 PM
Sep 2020

I've had 2 scrips sitting in the DHL/USPS exchange warehouse since Aug 29.
Custody has not been transferred to USPS for 13 days!
It's just BP medicine. Can't be any big deal, right?

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