I buy a ton of stuff from Amazon (I know it’s on the FReeper sh!t list don’t bother to tell me not to use them).
None of it ships via USPS. It’s all UPS and Fedex.
The reality is that first class mail is a dying business just like newspapers and needs to restructure to reflect that.
I’ve bought amazon and some stuff does indeed ship USPS. I just received something today from Amazon that used USPS. I don’t know what company it was that shipped the items, but it was name brand cosmetics.
None of it ships via USPS. It’s all UPS and Fedex.
My UPS, and most Fed-Ex, packages from Amazon, e-Bay sellers, and a few others, get dropped at the Post Office for local delivery by Post Office...i.e., a notice left in my P.O. box.
OTOH, those deliveries have to have my (unserved) street address, or Amazon, etc won’t accept the order, meaning I have to disguise the P.O. box on the order in an acceptable manner. (The item ordered can not be shipped to the specified address, please blah, blah, blah....)
I have had items returned to sender, because the sender used my street address ‘as required by the carrier’, then used UPS or Fed-Ex just to drop-ship to our Post Office.
Post Office loses a LOT of shipping business that they end up delivering anyway.
Ebay provides the USPS with TONS of business. megaTONNAGE. I have first hand experience with that.