“I know a lot of people seem to have issues with the USPS, but my service has always been excellent.”
I’ve had Rural Post most of my life. Always with great service.
For over half my life the rural drivers carried stamps in their cars in case someone needed to mail something but didn’t have a stamp. Just put the correct change for the postage in the jar lid you kept in the mailbox and the carrier would slap the appropriate stamps on and everyone was happy.
I hear the Post Office frowns on that type of thing and has forbidden the drivers with even the most rural routes to carry stamps.
I now live in an apartment with many units.
Five days out of the week we get great service, it’s the one day out of six that she’s off is the one that suffers. Lousy.
That happens here sometimes. Our usual lady is excellent, things not as perfect when she’s off.
(I think I remember my folks leaving change for postage in the mailbox :-)
My grandmother lived with us when I was a young kid in the 1940s. I recall her using a paper clip to put a few pennies on letters for the postman to pay for the cost of the stamps.