Postal Letter - Whats going on with the United States Postal Service?

Whats going on with the United States Postal Service?

Whats going on with the United States Postal Service? in my neighborhood the mail usually arrives about noon monday - saturday... earlier this week it started coming later and later on wednesday it didn't get here until after 5 pm on thursday it didn't come at all on friday it came at like 3pm and saturday no mail at all ... Does anybody know what could possibly be happening? Im in California. Is something similar going on in other States?

Public Comments

yes, cutbacks due to the economy but even worse in the case of the postal service is the loss of revenue from people going with email instead of buying a stamp
nope, just Cali
it's hit or miss with the USPS isn't it? No you're not alone. Another federal department with lax employees and inefficient operations
The post office has always been their own worse enemy. They are the reasons they are becoming obsolete. You probably just have a bad postal person so just be lucky you are getting your mail at all.
I am in Oregon and our sometimes does the same thing. It all depends on the routes and how much mail they have to get out that week. Often someone else could be on vacation and someone else has their route intop of theirs. I doubt this is lazyness or lack of caring. My uncle worked for the post office for 25 yrs and retired he also was in the army for our country & he was not lazy or anything....Some weeks our mail gets here around 3-5 pm. Some weeks it's 11-12am...Try not to worry. Best wishes.
It's partly the decreasing use of snail mail and such, partly the cost of running a vast bureaucracy as opposed to commercial competition like UPS, and partly because it is difficult to chuck out inefficient and/or useless employees. In my town, our postal people are good. Friendly, hard working, efficient and worth every cent they are paid. I doubt that many of them will be offered jobs in the USPS upper strata, but they get the job done in the trenches. This is probably not true, everywhere. .