Postal Letter

Why is the USPS such an unreliable bureaucracy? Its mailmen all-too-often tend to leave little pink slips in your mail box instead of delivering packages to your door, its "Priority Mail" service takes at least 3-5 days instead of the advertised 2-3 (check what companies like Amazon indicate on their shipping form, instead of what the USPS says), and packages -- even ones people mark as "priority" constantly get "missent." Missending something clearly labeled with the appropriate address?

Historians, other experts, what does MAILER refer to here? No, I don't mean Norman Mailer. The word did remind me there was a very famous person--I was thinking author all the while and finally looked him up. But I didn't put name in CAPS here in order to get literary or other experts to answer!!!! I put it in big letters so as to make it more noticeable and finally get an answer to a question I've been asking for the last hour. It so happens I've posted one question here on Yahoo about a particular column written by someone named John E. Tilton and have found out the newspaper was from Upper Darby, PA. I also just asked another question which included all the information about the wages been offered a MAILER back then and which was advertised in a Help Wanted ad. Coincidentally--and probably I'm too tired today to do any more "detective work"--I looked up THE PUBLISHERS' AUXILIARY on internet (of course), hoping to find it was a particular newspaper but have found many different articles or websites which have the same name but belong to different states. When I'm not so tired I will research all this. ....and coincidentally as I was saying the word MAILER is splashed across an article on that particular online newspaper I just saw. The story has to do with the U S Postal Service and the fact that employees are not happy, etc., etc. This leads me to believe that MAILER is a mailman? A post carrier? If it is, and by all the "clues" that I have just written about here on this question: Where was THE PUBLISHERS' AUXILIARY paper from? And based on the $1.63 per hour, 71/2 shift, $12.27 per shift in Billings, Montana, in which the ads ends with "Wire at once", instead of "phone in" or "dial this number": what year did all this take place? Or at least the decade? And if mailer means, mailman or mail carrier, where in the U.S. is it known otherwise? P.S. Merriam Webster gives three difnitions and none refers to mail carriers! THANK YOU!!!!

Should you bother forwarding mail for someone else not living in your house if it's obviously junk mail? I keep getting mail for people who used to live in my house, all of which is obviously junk--credit card applications, requests for money from charities, mail made to look like real letters, but are actually advertising (I know because I get the same mail addressed to me.) I almost always forward them but my mailman seems to still be clueless (after 3 years) that these people don't live here anymore, and it seems like a waste of taxpayer resources to constantly return junk mail to sender. I know I'm obligated to send the mail to where it belongs since these letters are not addressed to me, but lately, I'm thinking it's better just to trash them. What do you guys think?

Why is the United States Postal Service wasting money on TV commercials? I mean seriously they're going out of business and they're spending millions or whatever on these TV commercials. And they come to ur house every day so its not like people are just finding out about them. And i know they're advertising "if it fits it ships" but i think everyone got it by now so maybe they should focus on saving money instead of doing commercials. And maybe the mailman could tell people that if it fits it ships when he delivers the mail or they could tell u about it every time u go to the post office im sure the word would get around for free. JEEZ! and is that guy in the commercials even a real mail man and how much are they paying him?

Why is the United States Postal Service wasting money on TV commercials? I mean seriously they're going out of business and they're spending millions or whatever on these TV commercials. And they come to ur house every day so its not like people are just finding out about them. And i know they're advertising "if it fits it ships" but i think everyone got it by now so maybe they should focus on saving money instead of doing commercials. And maybe the mailman could tell people that if it fits it ships when he delivers the mail or they could tell u about it every time u go to the post office im sure the word would get around for free. JEEZ! and is that guy in the commercials even a real mail man and how much are they paying him?