Bed-Stuy Post Office To Be Audited After Customers Say It's 'Proof God Hates You'

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — A post office that customers say proves God exists because he hates those forced to frequent it will be audited after Patch reported on its long history of “Soup Nazi” service, according to a customer of the Bed-Stuy outpost.

The United States Post Office was spurred to investigate the Brevoort Station outpost after Patch reported on complaints of intoxicated mail carriers and customers who were blacklisted for complaining, said Jen Sarantakis. She said she got a visit from two USPS representatives on Friday.

“Apparently they came across the article and they freaked out,” said Sarantakis, 44, a small business owner who has spent two years struggling with post office employees who leave valuable mail on her stoop and refuse to deliver her packages.

“It's a long road ahead of them to fix this,” she said.

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Yelp reviews back up Sarantakis’ accounts of the Brevoort Station Post Office at 1205 Atlantic Ave. with stories of mail carriers “reeking of booze” and post office employees blacklisting customers who dared to complain.

And when Patch published the story on Thursday afternoon, Bed-Stuy residents were quick to share their own poor opinions of the Brevoort Station Post Office.

“Every post office I've been to in Brooklyn (besides the main one) is a pit of despair,” wrote Colleen McCormack on the Bed-Stuy Patch Facebook page. “But Brevoort may be the absolute worst.”

“It is indeed a horrible station.” added Peter Sylvester. “Long lines, not enough windows open. Horrible service.”

USPS representatives Khadri Smith and Richard Danzo knocked on Sarantakis’ door on Friday, a day after the story was published, and promised to investigate the post office, Sarantakis told Patch.

Smith, the manager of the USPS Business Mail Entry unit in Brooklyn, and Danzo, a USPS business development specialist also based in Brooklyn, told Sarantakis that the station had been on their radar for some time, she said. They did not tell her what an audit would entail and did not respond to Patch's requests for comment.

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