I know it comes from junk mail. A few years ago I sent a priority package to my son who lives two hours east of me outside Albany. It ended up taking 10 days to get there because all packages mailed here, are routed west to Rochester, NY for sorting, then sent on to their destination. I called the postal office here, and complained. He gave me the usual line that they were short-staffed. I told him that was funny, because you guys always seem to have enough staff to deliver junk mail and Amazon packages. The moron told me that USPS prioritizes Amazon packages before their own priority. Now I see that USPS and Amazon are close to splitting.
Maybe if the postal service got rid of some of the fat at the top, they wouldn't always be broke, or have to keep raising rates, and now apply a fuel surcharge.
LOL! It took those USPS idiots 30 DAYS to get a piece of ‘Certified Mail’ from East Tennessee to Maine. I got the same ‘short-staffed’ BS from the clerks. Having given up on USPS, I went to UPS. It took UPS 40 HOURS to get an envelope of duplicate documents to the same address. Natch, the mailman delivered the ORIGINAL a few days later.