re: Why is the post office slower than ever these days?

They took over the Amazon packages when UPS dropped it due to being a low-margin business

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mostly unfireable

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The only person I know of that got fired was doing drugs in a postal vehicle and buying drugs in his uniform.

Other than drugs, everyone is untouchable.

I could answer that question but I might get in trouble. It usually takes a certain kinda person to really make the USPS more aggravating than it already was.

I’ve tracked packages from USPS and the journey begins headed in the complete opposite direction of me.

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Seriously though….I mail a bunch of stuff from ebay and never had a delayed or lost package with USPS. Also, never had a lost suitcase on a flight. Lucky, I guess.

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I brought a stack of grad announcement cards to the post office Monday May 4th. Put them through the slot at the post office. Inside.

Most of them didn’t have to go further than 30-40 miles.

They started arriving on Tuesday May 19. 2 weeks and 1 day.

Here’s the kicker… they were all postmarked Friday, May15. So it took almost 2 weeks to just be postmarked.

Need to make the entire operation private ! Remove it from government operation .

Its now the same level and demographic of employee manning the Popeyes drive thru. The others are correct..all of the older employees are retiring. The new ones found govt teat to get out of the fast food/C Store industry

I told this story recently on here, but there was a mailman who been delivering the mail in the area I am in since.. I think sometime in the 80s.. He retired.. This might have been 2014-15ish.. give or take a year. A black dude. He never missed a day, he had to walk the neighborhood to deliver and he would knock it out in 40 mins.. too hot, too cold, too rainy.. it didn't matter, he was delivering. IF he had to take off, the other mail people would split up the route and do it after their routes. Thats how it worked. About 3 months before he retired, I was outside one day and he stopped to tell me he was retiring and he told me "Look, I am retiring in 3 months. I am letting everyone know because after I leave I am not sure how things will work. They are hiring women across the board so there is no telling how things will turn out".

He said that they are encouraging people to retire, the ones who are able to.. And across the board they were hiring women and just throwing them out there to deliver. He was a little old school so he said it like "hiring all those women they will have things all messed up" but from the day he retired and beyond the mail has been shite. People who would do it for a week or two and then realize they are not cut out to do it so they quit. Even now, on any given day it can be one of three people and sometimes someone else. I know people dont depend on them nearly as much, but people want to at least be assured if they mail in a payment it will get to where its mailed to

Nobody cares

They're alll punching the clock for their retirements

The workers in the Covington post office are mindless zombies. They are dead inside. You can see it in their eyes.