USPS Delays Affect VA Prescription Deliveries

September 09, 2020

With recent budget-cuts directed to the U.S. Postal Service. The Department of Veterans Affairs has been forced to work with alternative shipping providers for Veterans requiring prescriptions to be shipped to them. The alternatives VA is currently engaging with are private shipping mega-giants, FedEx and UPS.

If you would like to read more on the VA’s prescription shipping transition, click here.

In a recent email exchange between the VA and Disabled American Veterans (DAV); the VA acknowledged the proposed budget cuts after patients had reported significant delays in receiving their medications. DAV National Commander, Stephen Whitehead, goes on to call these delays, ‘simply unacceptable’.

Whitehead is right, for the oldest mailing institution in the United States history to be slashed in half for the sake of “fraudulent mail-in voting”, is simply aggravating.

After the service and sacrifices our veterans have given for the freedoms we enjoy today. This is how they are repaid? Leaving them to wonder if they will receive their medication in time? Where is the duty and drive to take care of America’s Veterans for a lifetime?

Like most other news and events in recent months, we will just have to see how this plays out. But for right now, it seems VA is trying to stay vigilant and monitor areas experiencing shipping delays. In the event delays are experienced, VA is switching between both private shipping providers to fulfill those areas.

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