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Revenue is down because the Postal Service is typical of any governmental enterprise (if you can call it that) so the answer is to make their services even more horrible than they presently are.

Yep! That’s the key “given them even worse service and they will be crawling to you for even worse service and a premium price and that includes free lost mail, delayed mail and a lot of mail that never reaches it’s destination.

I can’t wait for even more horrible service at even more horrible rates.

I’ve operated a business for more than 40 years and every year their service gets worse.

Where it used to take about one to two minutes to mail a box or letter at the post office, it has stretched over an average of 7 minutes per customer (I’ve made it a point to bring my stopwatch every time I go there).

Also, in this modern age check out how many paper stamps, forms to fill out and the number of rubber stamps they have to place on the package. The best thing to watch is the postman drive up to my business, fill out a whole lot of paperwork in his truck before he can even get out to bring the packages to me. Once there he has the most “GOD AWFUL” device to use to actually make the final delivery once out of his truck.....it’s some type of electronic device from the 1990’s that he has to actually push buttons on like a phone and it’s 50/50 manual input and actual written input on it’s tiny screen.

Once again, I time the delivery person and it averages about 7 minutes once again to actually drive up, deliver the package and drive off.

UPS driver comes up to my business, takes about 1.5 minutes to get the package, walk up to deliver it and return to his truck to make the next delivery.

A flagrant difference between a “for profit” business and one that tries by running customers off.

I’ve been using UPS for my business shipments and deliveries since 1986 and to date, have never experienced a lost package or packet...either shipped or received.

With the postal service I’ve had such bad experiences in both lost mail (or shipments) that I do not allow any shipments from my business via postal service.

Up until the last few years the postal service was somewhat reliable in the delivery of bill payments and invoices to my customers but over the past year I’ve had them not deliver approximately 14 mailed payments that have never arrived to their destination and it’s $20.00 every time I have to cancel payment and pay the late fees involved.

I know, I should use the internet for paying bills or automatic bank transfers but unless you are in business you can do that.

If you have ever been in an IRS audit you can’t even comprehend the misery you bring upon yourself (or business) without a physical “paper trail” that can be physically scrutinized by them. I’ve gone through that HELL and will never do it again for I’ve come to understand that they don’t want you to use the latest technology at all for they live back in the 50’s and they expect you to do the same.

The end result is you have to use the postal service for a majority of bill paying/billing or anything that requires a paper trail. Example: checks with the payee company endorsement on it. Don’t have it, your problem.....period!

I guess you have come to the conclusion that I hate the post service. You are right.

I’m old enough to compare the old EFFICIENT postal service that self-destructed in the late 60’s and early 70’s.