for our postal service. our customers packages may not arrive on time, which is huge for the holiday season. reporter: making snail mail slower, the post office says, will help it make a 95% on-time delivery goal. last quarter, they were around 88% on time delivery for first class mail. and these changes come just weeks after the agency raised the cost of postage. norah. o donnell: i read one expert saying mail delivery is going to be slower than it was in the 1970s. kris van cleave, thank you. and tonight, an urgent warning from the desmed a. about fentanyl. laced drugs on the street of america. there are millions of these dangerous, fake pills out there, and they are killing thousands of americans. cbs jeff pegues reports. reporter: matthew loudon was a star hockey player in high school. huge washington capitals fan. reporter: by tworng he was
dead from a fentanyl overdose. his mother, deena, found him in the basement. i can tell you miss him. i do, i do. i miss him every day, i have a hole in my heart. reporter: matthew, who strugemmed with depression, it taken a pill laced with fentanyl 100 times more potent than heroin. i saw matthew and quickly turned him over and i knew he was gone. reporter: nearly 75% of the drug-related deaths last year were attributed to illegal fentanyl. it s smuggled into the u.s., mainly from mexico, hidden in tires, trucks, even loads of frozen fish. in lor aido, texas, seizures at the border are up 1,500% this year. we re seeing them in very small packages, which makes it even more challenging for our workforce to interdict. reporter: the cartels lace drugs like cocaine and heroin with fentanyl, and use it to make fake pain pills that end up on american streets. the u.s. government seized 1.8
million counterfeit pills in the last two months. one pill can kill. reporter: deputy attorney general lisa monaco said the pills look like real drugs. they re being sold over the internet and on social media platforms, like facebook marketplace, or snapchat. and they re being marketed to teenagers. to me, it s just. .it s horrible. reporter: deena has stitched together matthew s hockey jerseys to remind her of her son, who she says was her life. we have to get the word out. people need to know what fentanyl is. reporter: because fentanyl and those fake pills are killing unsuspecting americans at an unprecedented rate, the d.e.a. has issued a public safety alert for the first time in six years. norah. o donnell: it is so true. we have to get the word out about these fake pills that are out there that are so deadly. jeff pegues, thank you. and there is still much more news ahead on tonight s cbs
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