@martind posted:Something is going on with USPS in Pa and NJ area. Ordered some traction tires on the bay 0n 12/22 and it should arrive tomorrow 1/5 from a seller in NJ. Also waiting for an insurance claim due to damage from a neighbor cutting a tree which landed on the wires and did considerable damage to the house. The check was mailed on 12/16. These were not big packages but regular mail size. I was surprised the check had no tracking. Not sure what is going on, I guess you could claim Christmas and COVID, I think the USPS needs some competition.
Part of the problem is due to the competition USPS has from both FedEx and UPS. So that their systems wouldn't be overwhelmed with more packages than they were both designed to handle and therefore look unfavorable to their customers, BOTH FedEx and UPS during the Christmas rush limited their acceptance of parcels for shipping to ONLY 2 PER CUSTOMER. So those customers had no choice but to DUMP the rest of their packages to USPS for delivery. It is those deliveries which vastly overwhelmed USPS' normal delivery projections. If USPS had a similar luxury of capping the number of packages they accepted that FedEx and UPS used then USPS wouldn't have a backlog either.
