and it took 3 days to get delivered. Usually it's been pretty much next day.

I'm often amazed at how fast mail and packages arrive. Their service has been extraordinary. As Rick Wilson says, "Everything Trump Touches Dies", even our Postal Service. I swear he is determined to destroy everything that is good in our country.

in person, I have only to go 1/4 of a mile to vote, and the lines are usually pretty short and sweet. That way, nothing will hamper my vote kicking the POS out of office. Nothing.

I hope he doesn't cause any permanent damage to the Post Office and their employees.

Two weeks and its still not there.

city and my small town. It has been like that for 3 wks so the seller is sending a replacement.

Never happened before.

Just imagine what is going on in these facilities. They must be losing their minds.

I sent my taxes to an IRS PO Box 2-day priority mail on July 14. They arrived on the 27th. I couldn't believe it. Three states away, 2 day priority.

They are creating the bottleneck -now- so that they can try to justify a delay clusterf k in November.

Apparently it is worse than I thought. I thought perhaps it was just my package. I didn't think he could screw up the Post Office so quickly.

At the moment--although I expect that to change--stuff shipping through hubs other than Chicago are moving with astonishing speed, but anything with tracking that I've seen hit Chicago stops dead and the tracking disappears until it shows up on my doorstep or a nearby station.

Most recently, a book I ordered from eBay shipped with tracking from Indiana on the 16th, hit Chicago the next day... Poof! It's gone! Just turned up the morning of the 29th in Idaho...almost two full weeks later.

Weeks ago when this was just getting started, a shipment from London reached Chicago in four days. Tracking disappeared when USPS took over. It took ten days to get from Chicago to the SF Bay Area.

The package got from China to Brooklyn pretty quickly. Then it sat in Brooklyn and New York for about five days before going to NH where it has sat at the same facility for 8 days. I've never seen this kind of service from the U.S. Postal Service before.

Does Trump realize that slowing down deliveries will also affect the economy adversely? The retail businesses that are doing well during the pandemic are online and they can't thrive without efficient delivery.

He seems determined to destroy everything worthwhile in his path. I think it is in his nature. Though he talks success, I think he is programmed to fail.

functioning brain there. Which is telling him the majority of this country wants him the fuck out. So he feels he has no choice but to burn it down as collective punishment. Whether this is conscious or on a subconscious level. I don't know. Other than that, I don't have much of an explanation.

I think he would rather burn everything down than accept defeat gracefully. If I can't win, everybody loses! Like you, I'm not sure whether it is conscious or subconscious, but it seems to be a pattern with him. It is just now it is on a much bigger scale.

One package was sent to Florida (from Washington), and was delivered in three days. Another one sent to California the same day took a week (both were Priority Mail). With several packages, there was no tracking information at all until they arrived at the recipient's local post office.

The problem, I think, is that the postal service is short-handed because of COVID, but has to handle a much higher-than-normal volume of mail because people are doing more shopping online.

This is what concerns me the most with the expanded absentee voting. The postal service, which is already struggling, may not be able to deliver all the ballots in a timely manner, resulting in many votes not being counted.

So if you vote by mail, please MAIL YOUR BALLOT EARLY, or take it to a drop box if there's one available.

orders to slow down mail delivery is an attempt to slow down mail-in ballots and affect the election. That is why people are being advised to mail their ballots as soon as legally possible. I've already sent away for both my primary and general election ballots.

How is it that he's convinced the rank and file post office workers to cut their own throats in front of us all? By slowing the mail to this degree, they risk killing off the US Postal Service entirely -- and there go all of their jobs.

Why would they do it? It makes no sense.

I think he is cutting labor big time, so even if they want to do a better job, they don't have enough help.

I heard the other day (CNN I think) that they don't do that anymore, so mail stacks up and they are super fussy about overtime, so......

I only get junk in my mail, so it's no bother to me, but it will definitely screw up mail in ballots

is shutting down the mail sorting machines and making workers sort the mail by hand.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213836067

that I have subscriptions for.