The US Post Office has a VERY DIVERSE workforce.
Our newest mail carrier has taken to putting my bills and such inside the folded junk mail. It is infuriating! Now I have to actually look through that garbage just to make sure I am not throwing out a bill. Forget putting something in your mailbox and expecting it to arrive at its destination. It certainly isn’t performing at the level is was even a few years ago.
Boy are you right! My Dr. Ordered a new drug for me and it shipped on the 20th of May and I am still waiting. It has bounced all over Florida and Georgia. It has gone through Jacksonville FL 3 times and sitting there right now for 3 days! Ridiculous!!!
Typical Government employee arrogance. Each and every USPS employee no matter level of position has some idea THEY run the whole Enchilada. The service and customer respect is about as bad as going to the Motor Vehicle Dept. The civilian public are treated like unclean Peons...
The person writing this doesn’t seem to understand how the system works. Bulk mail is not something you use for time sensitive mailings. Ever.
It still costs about a dollar to mail something to the other side of the country.
That is a bargain.
The reasons for the annual deficits are well known, but to generally understood by the masses.
The increased automation and efficiency in the Postal Service is amazing. Buildings that used to be filled with people handling each piece a couple of times have been replaced by scanners and sorters that move millions of piece of mail every day.
Bitching about the postal service is an age old trope. It is based on ignorance.
You are seeing the twilight of the great government agencies that once existed. USPS, NASA, FAA, NOAA, FBI, CIA, and so on. All being crushed under their own dysfunctional weight.
USPS is horrible. I just sent a package to Washington DC, it arrived in DC, but, a couple of days later, it showed up in Boise ID. Now it is headed, hopefully, back to DC.
Most people in the USA no longer send written letters or Birthday Cards, it's mainly electronic communication.
I have never received a written letter from any of my grandkids {all are in their 20's} they email, tweet, twit and twat and once in a while actually call and talk on the phone.
I don't know if any of them has ever written an actual letter.
I know that none has ever hand written a letter because the chicken scratch that they call writing looks like the Greek Alphabet.
The Post Office is the VCR of communications.
My Pillow orders are routed around the country.
The USPS is a bad combination of private responsibility (on paper) and government control.
It has always been a popular location for minority hires, especially back in the ‘60s when it was a fully subsidized government operation and there was twice a day delivery.
Even recently, I received a Christmas Card that was mailed to Arizona with a Missouri postmark of January 5, 2025. Bad.
I was waiting for an important piece of mail that tracking showed was out for delivery. When it wasn’t delivered I tracked the tracking and it showed it arriving in a city in another state.
I’m surprised Amazon, FedEx, UPS or whomever hasn’t started a competing, low-cost, letter delivery service.
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.
Deliberate sabotage?
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.
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.
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.