USPS audit confirms state’s longstanding mail issues

An official report from the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Postal Service has brought further clarity to ongoing questions of the organization’s performance in South Dakota, nearly a year after one of the state’s congressional members called it into question.

The 30-page report published Sept. 23 comes from an audit initiated by U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds in December. The South Dakota Repu…