Last summer, United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy laid out what he called a “splendid vision“ for the future of the Postal Service.

In his vision, one of America’s oldest agencies would shed the shackles of inefficiency and become greener, leaner, and finally competitive with logistics titans like Amazon.

But in Virginia, the opposite happened.

The Commonwealth became the worst state in the country for on-time delivery of first-class mail, according to the main watchdog agency that oversees the post office. Since October of last year, Virginia was last place for on-time mail delivery, with its “D” score a full 13 points below its nearest competitor.

Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.