CHAMPAIGN, Sick. (WCIA) – Little business enterprise owners in Champaign are saying they have not gotten mail for weeks.

Melanie Sivley and Jolie Carsten specialize in psychological wellbeing counseling. They operate from the identical creating. Both enterprises acquire checks by mail, and they say their mailboxes have been vacant due to the fact past year.

Right up until shipping resumes, neither they nor their workforce can get paid. They’ve experimented with achieving out to the submit place of work, but haven’t had substantially luck.

“How can we survive if we just can’t get our checks since they’re not providing the mail?” Sivley stated.

“Here we are – smaller enterprises – supplying this mental health and fitness assistance to individuals, and we had been currently being impaired,” Carsten reported.

The USPS gave us a written statement declaring there are “not any evident delivery issues” in Champaign. They reported the dilemma at this place is “unique” and they are performing to take care of it.

You can browse the complete statement underneath.

There are not any evident supply concerns with business prospects in Champaign. In talking with the Champaign Post Business office there is a special condition with a downtown site at 206 N. Randolph. The Postmaster is operating with the setting up proprietor to solve incorrect labeling and mailbox assignment for correct delivery, with current labeling scheduled to be done these days.

Timothy Norman, USPS Strategic Communications