A misplaced tray somewhere along the postal chain meant a few days’ delay in the delivery of Social Security checks to local residents, but local postal officials say all those checks should now be in residents’ hands.
The checks normally arrive at the local post office in time for delivery to local residents by the third of each month.
Postmaster Mark Ebelhar said Friday that this month, the office received less than a fourth of the normal amount of checks.
When the remainder of the checks failed to arrive by the third, Ebelhar began making calls to determine the source of the delay.
“Somewhere along the line they got set back and didn’t get sent,” he said.
The specific cause of the problem had not been identified Friday, but the remaining checks were located and put on a truck from Louisville to Evansville on Wednesday evening.
They arrived at the local post office Thursday morning and were put out for carriers’ routes for delivery that day.
“As far as I know, everybody had them yesterday,” Ebelhar said.
The postmaster dismissed rumors that the delayed checks had been sent to Princeton, Ind., instead of the local office.
If they had, he said, the Indiana office would have notified the local office upon discovery of the mixup.
