The Pennsylvania Department of General Services (DGS) recently fired a mail vendor for failing to deliver state agency mail, according to a statement sent by the DGS on Friday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that “an unknown amount of mail from Pennsylvania state agencies to residents has gone undelivered,” and that the DGS “has ended its contract with an unidentified vendor that pre-sorts state agency mail before delivering it to the U.S. Postal Service to be sent to residents around the state.”

A new vendor, technology solutions company Pitney Bowes, has been hired for $1 million, and the state estimates that unsent mail will be mailed by early next week. The department is looking into the amount and type of unsent mail, The Inquirer said.

In related news, The Inquirer reported late last week that Uri Monson, Governor Shapiro’s longtime colleague and Pennsylvania’s budget secretary, has been named the new executive director of the Pennsylvania school pension and investment system (PSERS) following a national search.

The PSERS board picked Monson “because of his extensive public-sector financial experience,” board chair Richard Vague said in a statement.

Monson, a former top finance officer for the School District of Philadelphia and for Montgomery County, will oversee a staff of 350 responsible for paying retirement checks to half a million current and retired school employees from the $80 billion-asset.

Zachary Reber, a deputy secretary in Monson’s office with 30 years of state government experience, will become the state’s new budget secretary.

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