Bend over, here it comes again!

The post office is extremely corrupt and operates at a huge deficit every year with shitty service

It now takes 2 weeks for a letter to go from Pittsburgh to us, I’ve had a package sent from Sig in New Hampshire 2 weeks ago and tracking shows it in Chicago with a delivery date of next Friday

It’s cheaper and faster to use UPS/FedEx

They will do/say anything to get more money from their customers

I wouldn't say corrupt, it is bloated beyond imagination and the cause of that bloat is largely ignored. Congress in 2022 passed an act to "reform" the USPS and part of that "reform" was to make it law that they had to deliver mail 6 days a week. Their motivation was that some people get medications through the mail and if they can't get them 6 days a week then people would suffer. The reality of the situation is the only people getting prescription medications mailed to them are those who are on "maintenance" type drugs long term. You don't go to the doctor because you have a sore throat, get diagnosed with strep and then wait 2-5 days for the prescription to arrive in the mail. You take your ass to the pharmacy on your way home and pick up the script and if you are smart buy a drink at the pharmacy so you can get the antibiotic on board ASAP.

What comes in the mail? Your antidepressants, statins and boner pills in a discrete brown package. You often get a 90 day supply and then get the next shipment 85 days later so you have a cushion where you don't run out of medication when the post office inevitably screws up and "loses track of" your package. Reality is between 70 and 85% of mail that is delivered is junk mail. That is 100 billion pieces of mail delivered every year. Roughly 300 pieces of mail for every man woman and child in the country each year. And all of that junk mail is delivered at reduced rates. Reduced how much? 50-85% off of first class postage. And they say they reduce the rates because it is less work for those who have to sort the mail. But 93% of all mail is sorted by machine, so how can it possibly be that they saving 50-85% on the labor of sorting mail when 93% of all mail is sorted by machine? They can't. Do we need daily deliveries of "junk mail"? No, we really don't. If we cut deliveries back from 6 days a week to 5 we save 17% right off the top. And the Postal Service operating deficit runs a consistent 10% a year. They'd go from a deficit to a yearly surplus just by doing that 1 thing. But there is far larger savings to be had in going to every other day delivery. 1/2 of addresses get mail Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the other half gets deliveries Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. That cuts mail carrier staff in half instantly. And if they reduce the junk mail discounts, the amount saved would be huge.

But the USPS is full of people who have never had a job, working under laws created by people who have never had a real job and who take a portion of their income and "donate" it back to political candidates to get elected and continue the stupid law writing to employ more postal employees. And the people who set the rates know they are losing money by offering junk mail discounts but they go at it with the idea that what they lose they will make up for in volume of deliveries. With 2/3 of all mail being junk, the postal service could cover the cost of fuel simply by reducing the discounts by 1/2, it would also put them into the black financially for everything else as well.

But no, the postal worker's union has as its entire purpose to employ more people so the union can donate to democrats and keep screwing us. I'm over it. Congress needs to be limited in what they can write laws about how the executive branch carries out their duties even when they don't operate on tax money.