We have been driving up and down the hill several times a day since the storm as have our neighbors. I asked a delivery driver who brought medical supplies for my wife who had surgery recently if they had any difficulty getting up the hill. They said no but the abandoned car made it look like it might be difficult.
The mail delivery trucks around here are all chained up. The Amazon delivery truck didn't even look like it had snow tires. None of our neighbors are using chains and most of the vehicles going up and down the hill are 4wd.
So I tried to call the post office. All I wanted to do was go and pick up our mail. Good luck with that... First you can't get through to any one local even after waiting on hold for half an hour. The post office unfortunately is nothing but a giant boondoggle.
I am sorry, I got the author and date wrong on the form.
None of our neighbors are using chains and most of the vehicles going up and down the hill NOT are 4wd.
Higher prices for less service. Only a government bureaucrat would think that is the recipe to save a failing business.
are NOT 4wd
Our mail slowdown seems to have been in effect for months.
The local stuff is still fast, but any out of town mail has been exhibiting at least a few days slower service.
So when people are abandoning your service you should make the service crappier and raise prices. Yeah, that sounds like our government geniuses.
Fix financial problems by making their service worse and more costly to customers.
The one thing that won’t be cut is bonuses for management.
Be careful with any bill you pay by mail and the requirement is it must be *received* (not postmarked) by the due date. People are going to start seeing late fees if they missed this change to the mail service.
This doesn't make sense to me. "Declining mail use" and "Avalanche of e-commerce purchases" are contradictory.
I understand that many on-line purchases are delivered through other means than USPS, but then why mention it as coping with an "avalanche?"
The Constitution calls for Congress “To establish Post Offices and post Roads.” I wonder if that allows for multiple postal delivery services, competing with one another. I would think that would result in better service, if properly implemented.
Does this mean my junk mail will be late?
How to fix falling revenue : less service for more money.
Instant Fail.
FU Dejoy
I cannot for the life of me, understand why anyone would use the USPS. The service has always been extremely slow, mail is never on time, and there is no recourse when the USPS screws up the mail! One simply has to live with a lousy mail system!
.....AND.....
The lazy, slow, defiant workers can never be fired. Everyone knows what real problem is but cannot say so because the woke crowd would shout down anyone!
Getting rid of the postal union would be a good start at solving problems.
So they simultaneously have too much and too little mail?
The postal service should be privatized.
Our local is filled with new hires who really don’t GAS if you are there or not.
They also want to charge you extra if your package has breakables and you thoughtfully put a fragile sticker on it. And the rate for that is not cheap. [Not that the sticker does anything more than maybe cause the first person who touches it a moments pause: once it is in the mail stream its handled like any other.] So I make sure breakables are insured and they can pay for the broken ones.
I must say that all the majors have delivery delays with FedX ground being one of the worst. More so than the USPS...heresy, I know.