What’s Up with the Post Office?

New American Prophet ^ | June 3, 2025 | Rob Pue

[Rev M. Bresciani]

I realize there are many more pressing problems in our nation and world today than what I’m about to discuss, but these issues are already being addressed very well right now by others. What’s not getting much attention — and I feel needs to — are the ongoing failures within the US Postal Service.

The USPS has been in a nosedive, downward spiral for years and it’s only getting worse. While this agency continues to raise prices and continues to operate as an unsustainable, failing business, the service has gotten so bad now I feel we must address the situation head on.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The last couple of years have been much worse in terms of late deliveries, deliveries to wrong addresses, etc. Recently a Visa bill and an insurance bill showed up together about a month after they had been sent, well after the payment due dates.

I’m one of the old dinosaurs who still prefer to mail checks, but I may have to reconsider my dislike for direct payments. I really hate giving all sorts of companies access to my bank account.

[Melinda in TN]

My daughter has been waiting on a birthday card for 14 days…

Sorry but I had to laugh. I sent a friend a Christmas card a couple of years ago and she got it in June. LOL

[fwdude]

The US Post Office has a VERY DIVERSE workforce.

Bingo. Diversity = perversity

[EVO X]

My daughter has been waiting on a birthday card for 14 days…

I sent my niece a B'day card with a $50 bill inside from downstate Illinois. It bounced around Chicago for about 3 months until I got it back with the return to sender stamp. This was before Covid. Actually I don't have much of a problem with the local post office. All my paper bills arrive on time. If I send a check, I drop it off at the main post office. I don't even remember the last time I had a missed payment because of a post office error..

[dfwgator]

Deliberate sabotage?

[ComputerGuy]

I think the USPS has a monopoly on first-class mail, as in letters.

[Magnum44]

[fwdude]

The USPS is now chock full of DEI hires. I see it behind the counters at PO branches. I see it in mis-delivery of mail. Three weeks to get mail, and I live in a large city.

My brick pillar curbside mail box is surrounded with a narrow margin flower bed bordered with stones. These now routinely get struck by mail vehicles and pushed out of place. This never happened 10, or even 5 years ago.

[9YearLurker]

But the others have long been able to send their version of certified letters. What’s the cutoff?

(I don’t see a monopoly here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause)

[Skooz]

Bingo.

I’ve noticed a precipitous decline in my local post office as their diversity has increased. At first I thought it coincidental.

[oil_dude]

The problem with the USPS is that it is staffed with government workers. They need 100,000 of them to do the work of 15,000 private sector workers. Which is why it should be privatized immediately.

[Trumpette1954]

I know, huh? I’m just glad the meds weren’t for my heart or some other critical health problem!

[alternatives?]

I have a close relative who worked there over 25 years who left about 4 years ago. He is amazed how bad it has recently gotten. Priority mail, over $10 dollars, 100 miles away. One took two days, one took two weeks. The second traveled back and forth a few times. 1099 forms taking 2 to 3 weeks.

[fwdude]

When I was young, I took the civil service exam for postal employees (1980’s). It was grueling and I did just moderately well.

I imagine that strict screening device is a thing of the past due to “diversity” requirements.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I dropped a water bill payment in the mail for our local town on the day I got it. It never arrived.
I got dunned for a late payment as a result. Now I take the bill into town and personally hand it to the clerk.

I usually pay bills on line but in the last year it seems all those I pay have added new security to their web sites making it tough to pay on line. One I paid for over 20 years on line did this and I had to drop their check in the mail. Don’t know when it will hit the bank.

[GingisK]

This "institutional collapse"; and, is just one of the many symptoms of the collapse of our civilization. See Why Civilizations Collapse

[cuz1961]

My Pillow orders are routed around the country.

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This.

It's as if there is a commie programmed AI with its finger on the scale.

Twice I ordered a my pillow only to have it sent through a post office in the California desert that had less than 30 population,,and sit there for 3 weeks.

Other my pillow orders since then have ALL taken over a month to arrive.

[fwdude]

The USPS now hires a lot of contractors, who fly under the competency/training radar.

[Chainmail]

The US Postal Service has been a likely will continue a nosedive. I have had mail delivered to me that was addressed to someone else - with addresses that weren't even close to mine, often (if you want to get a really funny look, go ahead and deliver somebody else's mail to them).

I have had birthday cards I have sent to my family robbed of cash - and the torn open envelope delivered.

I have had several packages arrived severely damaged and no note of apology for the condition and I have seen a postal delivery of a package to my porch by long toss from about ten feet away.

I have had a delivery person leave a card insisting that flowers near my post box "need to be removed because the postal delivery employee is allergic to bees". This despite they are large purple flowers which never attract bees - and they decorate every single post box in our entire neighborhood! (at least 60, possible more homes)

Despite the few complaints I have submitted, nothing is ever done.

The quality of mail personnel is horrible, in many or most cases.

[Bon of Babble]

I can’t think of two more miserable places to be than a US Post Office or DMV (TSA airport checkpoints too). All inefficient, government-run operations.

So glad so much can be done online now, especially postal service.