@NYSteve;

There were a whole LOTTA fiascos I didn’t mention for brevity’s sake.

Actually, the thing about the rain, sleet and snow was never the USPS’s motto; it was simply inscribed above the entrance to the 8th Avenue Post Office in New York. In fact, the USPS never had a motto, strangely enough.

If they DID have a motto it might be: “Watch Us Waste Your Money”…

I used to work for them and believe me, I know how bad they can be.

Biden has nothing to do with this and has no authority to do anything about this problem. USPS is run by a “Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service” and only they have the authority to appoint or remove the Postmaster General. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_United_States_Postal_Service

BUT, better question….how is he STILL around?

@whatever1234- not just ANY rump- one that is a specialist in destroying services for the community to privatize said services, for his own and his oligarchy’s pockets

@nagmashdriver- no mention of the electric car fiasco

As such, I was selling 1-3 items a day and even with the waste, greed and sloth I saw on a daily basis at work, I could confidently tell my customers that their merchandise would arrive 1-3 days after shipping it from across the country.

Circa 2008, Congress began getting more angry about the USPS continually begging for handouts and twisted their arm to make changes. The Postmaster General decided to close smaller sorting facilities and consolidate them with larger facilities. That didn’t turn out so well as gasoline and employee overtime costs money, so the savings wasn’t all that big.

Then they got the bright idea to close post offices in the smallest of rural communities. Turns out, even in the age of the Internet, people still need their mail sent and delivered. That plan was nixed.

Now, they are closing post offices in geographic proximity to processing plants (there aren’t a lot of them to begin with, only one in Arizona, for instance) and bringing the post office into the plants which are already over-crowded.

So, more money is now being spent on remodeling the plants, adding bathrooms, breakrooms, parking lots, fencing, customer service counters (no way are they going to re-use all the old furniture, fixtures, etc) and probably purchase all-new computers, cash drawers, etc. etc.

Way to go, USPS!

Oh, and by the way, I left evilbay in 2015 and migrated to Etsy (now Etsbay) and Bonanza, now called “boner-killer”….

When I ship my merchandise I always give my customers a WEEK’s estimate for delivery, even when going Priority. Sadly, that is often the case with the new and (un)improved USPS…

Also, what’s with all the weather excuses? Didn’t the Post Office motto used to be “neither rain nor snow shall delay the mail”, or something like that? Oh yeah, they dropped that motto years ago. Sad.