I wanted to write a quick diary on my experience with the USPS slowdown.
Trump’s reasoning behind the USPS slowdown, is that nothing has stopped him before and nothing is going to stop him now. I am starting to think this will generate a backlash at the polls, because it is going to hit people in the wallet.
While we pay most of our bills online, we still mail in our mortgage check. Normally when we have mailed it in the past, it took only two days from the East Coast to the payment center. We mailed the payment at the post office counter a little over a week ago, and it still hasn’t arrived.
Today is the last day to pay for the month, without being hit with a late fee, etc. Fortunately we are easily in a position to pay an extra month*. However, this got me thinking about everyone else who mails in their mortgage payment, living on a knife’s edge and cannot easily do this. People are going to start to notice this.
* Extra month — to clarify once the original payment is received we will have paid twice this month.