USPS should be abolished and everyone who works there needs to be fired.

I read recently that the USPS volume is down 80%, while their employee headcount is up 190,000...
The volume is down 80% since 1997 or do. Internet big driver of that statistic. Headcount down about 250,000 over same period.
 
Unfortunately UPS isn't mush better at times.
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I mean Chelmsford is a garden spot of MA, but did the package really need to come back for a 2nd visit, then spend the weekend.
 

Denmark's state-run postal service, PostNord, is to end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since the start of the century.

The decision brings to an end 400 years of the company's letter service. Denmark's 1,500 post boxes will start to disappear from the start of June.

Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen sought to reassure Danes, saying letters would still be sent and received as "there is a free market for both letters and parcels".

Postal services across Europe are grappling with the decline in letter volumes. Germany's Deutsche Post said on Thursday it was axing 8,000 jobs, in what it called a "socially responsible manner".
 
Dragged the whole family down to the local suburban post office for a passport appointment. 5 of us in and out in 30 minutes. It was great.

On the other hand...

When I go to the big PO across from my office there's usually a huge line, one slow, miserable employee behind the counter, and someone who doesn't speak english at the front of the line trying to deal with their immigration paperwork, or trying to mail a huge box of something to the other side of the world.
 

Huh.

"McReynolds worked at the office of the Denver Clerk and Recorder from 2005 to 2018, serving as the city's director of elections from 2011 to 2018. There she led the city's transition to a fully vote-by-mail election system.[4] Denver created the Ballot TRACE system, the first municipal program that notifies voters of the delivery and counting of their mailed ballots, and McReynolds introduced an app for electronic collection and verification of petition signatures.[6] In 2018 she was named one of Governing's Public Officials of the Year.[6]

In August 2018 she became CEO of the National Vote at Home Institute to advocate for universal postal voting, which they say increases voter turnout, reduces administration costs, promotes equity by providing easier methods to vote, and is secure against fraud.[7] She has provided advice to voters and election officials on adopting best practices for mail-in voting, including training of election workers, use of appropriate counting equipment, and educating voters. McReynolds and the Institute gained prominence in 2020, when many states expanded access to absentee ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing voters to vote at home by mail rather than in person. She provided recommendations for sending voters ballots and how to collect them.[8]

McReynolds testified before Congress twice about voting safely during a pandemic and election security.[9] Then-California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said McReynolds influenced and advised California's mailing of ballots to every voter, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office used McReynolds's advice on implementing the system.[4][8] The National Vote at Home Institute provided reports for how states could implement vote-by-mail, and 65 million votes were cast by mail in the November 2020 election.[1]


On February 24, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that he would appoint McReynolds to a vacant seat on the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service."
 
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