Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds – nothing except the FAA, Gazan rockets, and perhaps some antisemitism.
It’s nearly a month after the FAA banned flights to Israel, and then rescinded that ban 36 hours later, but for some, postal delivery from the US to Israel is still problematic.
The problem began after the FAA banned flights to Ben Gurion Airport, at which point some US Postal Service offices began turning down mail to be delivered to Israel. This was supposedly cancelled 36 hours later, when the FAA rescinded its ban, though apparently not all the post offices got the memo in some states.
The ADL received complaints from people in Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey who haven’t been able to send mail to Israel, and were turned away by the Post Office.
David Partenheimer, a USPS spokesperson apologized for the the error of not accepting mail to be delivered to Israel. He added that that there was no authorized decision to not accept packages, according to a JPost report, and the USPS continued to deliver mail via other cargo carriers who were flying to Israel.
The ADL wrote to the Postmaster general asking it to provide better clarification to the local post offices, that the order to stop accepting mail was a temporary suspension, and not a permanent policy change.