The United States Postal Service should be renamed USSSPS - United States Snail Space Postal Service - for their lack of speed. I don't know what is wrong with them but for a while now they are more unreliable than ever. 40-50 years ago, I was admiring how reliable they were. Since then, they managed to erode that confidence.
Now, they are the designated worse than I can imagine. Mail disappears without explanation, it is impossible to contact anybody. Mail arrives in the designated location but instead of being delivered it sits in the post office for days and I am not talking about weekends. When there is a time sensitive piece of mail is in question that kind of handling is not very good.
I did complain and they just found different excuses. But yesterday's mail topped it all. My friend sent a birthday card to my wife and this envelope was stamped on March 30 in Wilmington, Delaware. It got to our mailbox yesterday, April15. 17 days it took to get here from Wilmington, Delaware to our address. It could have been walked in less time.
I think the post office takes it upon itself that what they consider unimportant mail is just not being delivered. Like for years our overseas Christmas cards never get to their destinations. We usually send them to Hungary and to Australia. None of them ever reach there. But all the overwhelming requests for donations (political or others) without fail reach us.
Because that is money mail it seems more important than the regular stamped personal mail!
Good country, America!
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