The USPS has been draining the federal government of finances for quite a time now. When they need more money, they ask the government to help them out and they get the finances. Who is governing over our USPS anyway. That person or group should be in my opinion held accountable for spending out of control and they just keep increasing the postage stamp fees. It seems like nowadays almost after a postage stamp increase there seems to be another one around the corner. They rook you in by purchasing the Forever stamps but in reality, the price of stamps keeps escalating so how many of us really still have Forever postage stamps in which we paid for them at a reasonable cost to use when the pricing keeps increasing. When you inquire at postal stations, they have no answer and definitely no answer as to why we are not getting improved services for each time the government bails them out. Maybe it is time for the Federal government to take over the administration of the post offices in the USA and hold them accountable.
Here are a few of my recent post office experiences. I baked cookies and took the time to place them in packaging I thought would get them to their destination all intact. Well, they seemed to take days to get there and when they arrived, they were crumbled pieces. I asked my local post office what the cause was since they were marked fragile, and they may have even marked it perishable also. I was told that automation/machines are now handling packages, and they are not being handled by actual people taking care of the package as it goes through the postal system. That is a shame when actual human beings are not handling fragile/perishable type of packages. No wonder if machines are jostling them around that they arrive crumbs. Postage is not cheap nowadays and to spend the money to have that type of service should be addressed. Furthermore, there is no reimbursement given of some sort to the paying customer when the mail is not being handled properly, and the receiver gets crumbs instead of yummy cookies. Now, my relative did share with me that they were good tasting when they ate the crumbs with a cup of coffee. They should not have had to resort to eating cookie crumbs when cookie crumbs were not sent to them in my package prior to being handled by the USPS in which I paid for this service.
Two other recent occasions I ordered items and while viewing tracking history of the package destination heading to me I experienced this. Both instances I can see it was actually in the region in which I reside, then for whatever reason they are re-routed to cites anywhere from 1.5 to approximately 4 hours away from where I reside to then be sent back to my region to be delivered. In 1 instance the package inside was all bent and caused the box to open with some of the items outside of the box within the package. Most thankful that particular company sent me out a fresh package and charged nothing for it, including postage. That is not fair to both me and the vendor when it deals with the mismanagement/mishandling of package delivery.
Please look further into this. Oh, 1 more thing ... quit having them purchase electric vehicles to deliver the mail that is a pure waste of money. With these recent incidents I experienced, don't you think maybe it is time to rehaul the USPS. There I go thinking out loud again.
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