[timtim51251]

They don't need more money. Mail volume is down 47% since 2000. Employees should be less than half, but its not even close. They keep employing people that are not needed and that don't do the job right. They constantly deliver the wrong mail and it happens all the time.

[9rx]

> Employees should be less than half

Trouble is that it takes approximately the same amount of labor for you to send me one letter as it does to send me ten. Mail volume being down 47% doesn't appreciably mean less work.

> ...that don't do the job right.

An understandable outcome when operations is forced to trim fat amid a declining customer base despite requiring approximately just as much work to be done. Meaning that fewer workers have to figure out how to do more, and cutting corners is how that gets done.

[bmitc]

In my experience, and I receive packages all the time, I cannot remember a time in which USPS did not deliver a package to me. Only one time can I remember where the package was damaged. The main reason why mail gets sorted wrong sometimes is that because the Republicans have tried to kill off the USPS so many times, it forced the USPS to take on advertising revenue by passing around a bunch of spam mail bundled with real mail.

FedEx's tracking is completely and utterly broken. It's just wrong nearly 100% of the time. FedEx doesn't appear to damage packages much, but the tracking is basically an implementation of Zeno's paradox.

UPS tracking is better than FedEx, but it is very likely to damage your package. I got an Amazon package delivered by UPS today where they had damaged the box so bad it was being completely held up by tape that they had wrapped the box with.

FedEx and UPS are clear examples that the right-wing wanting to kill off USPS because it's "inefficient" is a lie. They want to kill it off because they want FedEx and UPS and other such corporations to make more money and become larger -opolies.

[yial]

I send and receive between work and personal probably 1,200-1,500 packages a year.

I’ve stopped using UPS except when I absolutely have to. I would say 10-20% of UPS packages have some delivery issue from damaged to lost.

USPS is sitting at 0 packages lost.

[jim33442]

USPS does deliver packages. Before Amazon had their own trucks, they were mostly just USPS. Given the dominance of online shopping, how have they been consistently losing money? Were they subsidizing Amazon?

[mindslight]

I find USPS still sometimes delivers Amazon packages, especially their Slow Spiteful Shipping or No Rush shipping (when they've relented and given you "Prime").

There is also UPS Surepost and Fedex Smartpost. AFAIK these are all charged at a lower rate for dropping pre-sorted packages off at the local PO for last-mile delivery. But of course such last-mile delivery is the expensive labor-intensive part.