Postcards from Austria to US hardly delivered

[yudi]

Hello,

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Extremely long travel times

I should have used the words under pressure/stress instead. The US postal system had major cuts made under Trump that haven’t been restored & in the last 6 months, the postal system made a decision to priorize parcels over the delivery of letter mail. Plus workers being off sick with COVID & flu - mail is delayed.

US Mail Delays - 2022

This article appeared in a Google list late last night. Of interest to me were two items: The post service’s changes are prioritizing package delivery over mail letter delivery, raising prices and reinforcing facilities to increase revenue. The changes made in 2022 resulted in fewer employees, and less letters delivered by USPS. And The USPS statement regarding Superior Wisconsin reads as follows. “We are committed to providing the best possible service to our customers and we apologize…

How Good is your Postal Service?

I find USPS wildly uneven. It’s like the poem about a little girl: “When she’s good, she’s very good, but when she is bad, she is horrid.” Domestic cards can take anywhere from two (business) days to two weeks. My post office engages in the nasty trick of some Out for Delivery mail not loaded on the truck, so to clear that they scan it as Delivered in the post office building before the end of the day instead. The employees themselves are mostly very nice, trying to do their best. In the 2.5 ye…

If you ask my opinion I will say that my mail to US arrives in timely manner. I am always confused when people complaining about US