ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

I've noticed a decline in the standard of USPS service for more than 5 YEARS! The mail now comes late in the day usually and the volume is a function of the day it arrives. There is very little mail arriving on Friday and Saturday (presumably so that the carrier can finish the route and go home early) and usually a large volume on Monday, the first delivery day of the week. And at least twice a month I get a piece of mail for someone whose address is nowhere near my house or even my subdivision. In the past week I've had one piece of mail, addressed to someone else, misdelivered to my house twice--three days apart! The address on that envelope was nowhere near my street.

junglejim1949 Loc: Sacramento,CA

We have had postal delivery problems when our regular carrier is off she told me 6 to 7 people call in sick every day. We get our mail as late as 8pm or the next day. I have informed delivery so I see what I don't receive.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

What is “informed delivery”?

KLambar Loc: New Jersey

As a former Postal worker that's because a few years ago the offices use to cancel local mail and keep it in office to sort etc. Then the USPS said no all mail must come to PDC.

junglejim1949 Loc: Sacramento,CA

You are sent images of the pieces of mail scheduled for your address. It also lets you know if you are to receive any packages. Free service from post office.

St.Mary's

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

This is a current happening, as in now!! Not 2015, the performance was adequate (I do feel for anyone who loses their job through circumstances they didn't create - been there myself) until the current shutdowns. Distribution centers change with the population and demographic changes "generally", as it is about need, flow and profitability.
As for now - They were all about giving away several trillion dollars to big business (many that deserved nothing), but couldn't spend a couple billion to right the PO. The FED hasn't done right by the PO in some time....problem is, EVERYBODY suffers.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

P&DC==Processing and Delivery Center is a hub.

Silkway2017

I shipped a live plant to Ohio from FL via USPS 1st class mail.. It took almost 2 weeks for the plant to arrive and it was almost dead by that time....
I have been shipping my plants to other states since 2001 and never experienced such delays until now...

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

I have a package that I ordered on the 11th from Conneticut that says it left the Jersey City NJ distribution facility on the 13th and nothing since then...Today being the 21st...I had another order placed the same day coming from Illinois that was delivered on the 17th...I think it's certain facilities that are to blame for the slow distribution...My carrier went to another route and I also can get my mail as early as 2pm or as late as 5pm. I used to get it between 11 and 12 with the old carrier...

repleo Loc: Boston

Funny you should ask. Just last week my wife complained that some regular bills were coming in much later than usual. A couple of bills came in just a couple of days before the ‘due by’ date. We live in a major metropolitan area and get daily deliveries but some have been as late as 6:30 pm. Also noticed that there is only one counter staff person at the local PO instead of the usual 2 or 3.
Staff shortages for vacation time and Covit may be main reason, but considered in the context of other news and tweets, political manipulation cannot be ruled out.

Tomcat5133 Loc: Gladwyne PA

This was a manufactured emergency so the Post Office could be privatized.
FYI:
In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.
If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements, the Post Office would have reported operating profits in each of the last six years. This extraordinary mandate created a financial “crisis” that has been used to justify harmful service cuts and even calls for postal privatization. Additional cuts in service and privatization would be devastating for millions of postal workers and customers.
In its December 2018 report, President Trump’s Task Force on the United States Postal Service reaffirmed current rules related to postal retiree health benefits, calling it “part of a mandate for postal self-sustainability.” However, the Task Force also recognized that the aggressive and accelerated timetable for funding the mandate has proved unworkable. They call for past deficits to be “restructured with the payments re-amortized with new actuarial calculation based on the population of employees at or near retirement age.”

Triple G

Why not use the same FASB accounting for retiree coverage liability that other companies are forced to use?

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

So, you would want your children and grandchildren to pick up the cost of pension shortfalls. Or would you rather those pensioners get reduced or no retirement benefits? . The USPS, like Chicago and many other major cities have major retirement funding shortfalls. The USPS, being a Federal entity, can have legislation drafted to address those shortfalls so that the taxpayer is not on the hook for them. Chicago and other cities cannot. They would have to raise taxes to cover them.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

I drove by my local post office yesterday afternoon at 5:55 and the parking lot was full of USPS delivery trucks. I've never seen that many parked there that early in the day, they have been out delivering mail and packages until much later into the evening. I'm going to start checking it more often.