Generally good, yes. But there is a significant reduction in timing of deliveries last few years.
Monthly we get a package from the Midwest to FL. Usually shipped on Friday or Saturday in a Priority Envelope. Normally we get it Monday or Tuesday.
This month it was mailed on Friday. It went the wrong direction for about 4 days and sat there. Finally arrived on Monday 9 days after shipped. There should be a partial refund when their 2-3 day goal is blown to hell.
I do remember in college (1970s) I was an engineering student and was very very good at lettering. I addressed an envelope home with perfect block lettering. A few days later it came back as undeliverable. I was heading home the next week and brought to the post office and asked what made it undeliverable. They had no excuse. I asked for a refund. That was a hard “no.”
You used the correct term, "lettering".
I was an architecture student who had taken numerous drafting classes in junior high and in high school, and then in my first year at USC--so by then I was pretty confident in my lettering expertise. But that summer I got a job as a draftsman with the US Army Corps of Engineers. My new boss took one look at my lettering and immediately assigned me to remedial lessons, so that my lettering would lose its idiosyncrasies and resemble everyone else's. No prima donnas!