I want to share Louis DeJoy’s version of USPS efficiency (I give up, I can’t actually post the screenshot of USPS tracking on this item of mine, apparently due to some inscrutable copyright restrictions here in the site, even though it would be my screen shot, and I can assure you I own the copyright in that). Anyway, my package apparently took from March 28, 2022 to May 6, 2022 to move from Centerport NY to Jersey City NJ in the USPS system — a distance of about 46 miles. It took multiple requests to locate this thing, along with multiple refusals by USPS to look for it further, before the latest sudden movement. It appears it has finally arrived at a post office near me, 1000 miles away from Jersey City, so I hope I’ll get the thing — and only about a month after it should have gotten here with the guarantee of Priority Mail of no more than 5 day delivery. Thankfully, it wasn’t some kind of medication or similar item I needed urgently.
This kind of delay (2-6 weeks) is not uncommon lately for USPS. Apparently, it has something to do with prioritizing truck shipments over air (even when air would probably be the most efficient way to get something over distance). But the trucks are still leaving partially empty, so I guess we have to wait for the trucks to fill up before they leave for anywhere?
This is Louis DeJoy’s vision for how the U.S. post office should work — in other words, not at all. It is not the most urgent issue, but I think the Biden administration should find any way possible, fair or unfair, to fire that f**ker as soon as possible, and reverse his policies which have completely f**ked USPS as compared to private services. Otherwise, one of the crown jewels of this country, a public postal service available to all, will be reduced to privatization by attrition.