“Any mail that arrives after the earlier pickup time still must travel to St. Louis and back to Cape Girardeau, and “it sits, and to me that’s delaying the mail,” the employee said.
The employee said just because the pickup time was moved to earlier in the day does not mean there is not a delay.”
see: http://www.news.ruralinfo.net/2013/09/more-workers-report-delays-in-mail-operations-in-st-louis.html