A March Birthday in May, Post Office Style

 

A few days ago my mom got the birthday card I sent her. I live in the Midwest. She lives on the East Coast. She was thrilled to receive the card because her gift had already arrived. It had been mailed separately. That was a good thing.  My mom’s birthday is at the end of March. Let me repeat. At the end of March. So to arrive on time I mailed her card and that package around the 10^th of that month. She never got the card until last week,  the first week in the month of May. Eight weeks after the fact. I kid you not. Go figure. Seriously, the Pony Express could have gotten it there faster. I am so frustrated by the USPS I could scream. Since last summer there has been one problem after another with almost every item I’ve mailed… be it letter, bill, card or package. It’s ridiculous and inexcusable. The guy in charge needs to be kicked to the curb and fired. Processing machines have been ripped out slowing things down, employees fired, working hours cut, etc. If you want you could blame Covid19 for some of it, I’m sure. But I think it goes deeper than that. This guy in charge had no experience when he was placed in the position. He once privately owned  a shipping company in direct competition to USPS. Is his income supplemented by it now? Does he get kickbacks ?  I think he along with a lot of people in this country want to see the Post Office fail because they want it privatized. I don’t. Our Post Office had noble beginnings. It’s an important part of American history and needs to stay that way.  We need to preserve the institution at all costs. The USPS wasn’t ever supposed to be in the quandary it’s currently in, being unable to get the job done in a timely fashion or pay it’s bills. It was never supposed to make a profit. Mismanagement has led to its downfall. When a customer pays extra money for something to be delivered faster, it shouldn’t take 10 or more days to do it. Period. The USPS has to saddle up. Get back in the game and do the job it was created to do, without all the BS. They need to become more efficient in these modern times, for the sake of all it’s customers. Regardless of what some people think, we need the Post Office. And we have to do everything in our power to keep it. Don’t you agree? Without it I know I'd be lost. Where else could we go to get stamps that stir the imagination. The ones with personality plus… for Christmas, holidays, honoring icons, nature, writers, scientists, history and the like. Who else could give us that BIG thrill when we reach inside our mailboxes and get a letter from a loved one, in their own handwriting, not an antiseptic text.  Lets fight to make the Post Office the National Treasure it truly is.