USPS needs to hire more mail carriers. Some of my family members have been working for USPS for many years. They are being worked to death early morning to late night, seven days a week. They are exhausted. USPS isn’t hiring enough workers, and when they do hire, the new hires don’t want to stay because they don’t want to work 80 hours a week. If the new hires do stay, they don’t care as much as the older guys, so they take shortcuts to get the job done more quickly.
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They don’t need to hire more mail carriers.
They need to switch to every-other-day delivery, except perhaps for high-volume commercial customers.
Half of all routes would get Monday-Wednesday-Friday delivery, the other half would get Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday delivery.