UNPRECEDENTED DELIVERY CHALLENGES

UNPRECEDENTED DELIVERY CHALLENGES. USPS continues to do everything possible to deliver mail to as many customers that can be reached safely in the flooded and wreckage-strewn areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida that were in the path of Hurricane Katrina.Power outages, closed roads, high water and other obstacles are making it difficult for the Postal Service to reach customers — as well as many of our employees — in the areas hit hard by the storm. About 2.3 million residents remain without electric power and fuel is in short supply due to the loss of refining capacity along the Gulf Coast.