Mail Delivery, Customer Service, and Property Conditions Review – Edgemoor Branch, Wilmington, DE

This interim report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of mail delivery, customer service, and property conditions at the Edgemoor Branch, in Wilmington, DE. The Edgemoor Branch is in the Delaware-Pennsylvania 2 District of the Atlantic Area and services ZIP Codes 19703, 19802, 19809 and 19810. These ZIP Codes serve about 78,919 people in an urban area. This delivery unit has 63 city routes. We selected the Wilmington, DE area based on Congressional interest in Delaware and concerns raised during a recent House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. We judgmentally selected the Edgemoor Branch based on the number of Stop-the-Clock scans occurring at the delivery unit, rather than at the customer’s point of delivery, and indicators for undelivered mail.