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(The Center Square) – On-time delivery of the mail by the U.S. Postal Service in North Carolina was among the worst in the nation in the second quarter, a report from the

canonical_url: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/mail-delivery-among-nations-worst-in-second-quarter language: en-US date: 2026-09-13T20:46:46Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/mail-delivery-among-nations-worst-in-second-quarter. markdown-tokens: 579 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/mail-delivery-among-nations-worst-in-second-quarter. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/joomgrabber/2026-08/bd5dbd80c3.jpeg) (The Center Square) – On-time delivery of the mail by the U.S. Postal Service in North Carolina was among the worst in the nation in the second quarter, a report from the agency’s dashboard says. North Carolina was No. 44, with on-time service percentage of 78.2%. That’s well below the target of 87% and the national norm of 84.1%. Scoring worse were Virginia (74.9%), Maryland (76.1%), New Jersey (76.5%), Michigan 1 (76.9%), New York 1 (77%) and Minnesota-North Dakota (78.2%). There are 50 geographical postal districts nationwide. California 1 (95%), California 2 (94.2%), Hawaii (94.2%), Alaska (93.9%), and California 6 (93.7%) were the five best. In the first quarter, North Carolina had been at 83.5%. [As of Wednesday morning,](https://www.uspsoig.gov/focus-areas/service-performance) the dashboard put North Carolina at 88.1% thus far in the third quarter. “This is an issue that I hear about on a regular basis from constituents across the 5th District, and I am equally as incensed,” said U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C. “I remain very focused on this issue and will not hesitate” to put fire to the feet of “those responsible for this breakdown.” Content Original Link: [https://www.thecentersquare.com/north\_carolina/article\_f2212cd1-a9b4-411b-a92e-4eefd2ab1bae.html?a](https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_f2212cd1-a9b4-411b-a92e-4eefd2ab1bae.html?a) August 18, 2026 Hits: 74