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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GorillaG" data-source="post: 4163164" data-attributes="member: 49083"><p>I can tell you the main reason the USPS sucks (I mean apart from the fact its run by the government) and that in a word is Amazon. I was one of those hateful, illiterate, lazy Rural Carriers for 30 years. Still would be if it weren't for Amazon/ I went from about 5 packages a day that wouldn't fit in the mailbox to around 150 that had to be "porched".  And those driveways can get pretty long out in the country and those dogs can get mean out there too. Rural Carriers aren't "on the clock" like city carriers, their salaried. Its WAY worse for highway contract carriers. They bid the salary they'll work for, and if they dont have regular Rural Carriers then that post office is so far out in Bum Foxtrot OK there are no other jobs and the carriers usually figure out they underbid the job and often just quit. Some have even left the mail on the side of the road and never came back. No one hardly ever writes a letter or pays a bill by mail. A half a book of stamps lasts me a year. The USPS was over the day they invented the internet. The morons in D.C. invested BILLIONS in machinery to sort mail we don't have. So we deliver Amazon and junk mail at a LOSS to keep the plants open and people working but at a loss, not a profit. Try UPS or FedEx they might be better but both charge way more than the USPS. I had to use UPS to mail an envelope overseas. 80.00 bucks.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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