Rate your experience with the US Postal Service as it currently exists:

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On a scale of 1-10

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	Totally sucks
	0 (0%)
	Sucks pretty bad
	1 (2%)
	Awful but occasionally they get it right
	6 (13%)
	There's lots of room for improvement.
	8 (17%)
	Neither good nor bad.
	0 (0%)
	Problems, but not worth complaining about.
	0 (0%)
	Pretty good with some problem areas
	0 (0%)
	Reasonably good with a problem or two.
	2 (4%)
	Pretty good but not perfect.
	21 (45%)
	Zero problems. A great American institution.
	9 (19%)
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[wryter2000]

1. In the past

I would have said perfect. Great American institution.

[milestogo]

3. Yeah, me too.

In the past I never had any problems. But in the past 12 months I've had a half dozen things disappear completely. Even with tracking information, they never find anything.

[msongs]

2. fewer open windows for customer svc, longer delivery times nt

[hlthe2b]

4. I do not blame anyone but the "top of national management" for what is going on.

But, the impacts are felt regularly. DeJoy et al are determined to destroy USPS so that they and other vultures can swoop in to clean the bones. Unless DeJoy is removed SOON along with the cronies on the Board of Governors, they will succeed.

I have written and called my Congressional delegation so many times on this, that I feel like a stalker.

So much post-Trump's destructive four years makes me angry, but while he propelled the destruction, the RW has wanted nothing more than to dismantle it/privatize it for decades

[empedocles]

8. Agree.

[Woodswalker]

5. I'm happy with them

However I don't see much of them anymore. Amazon pretty much delivers with their own fleet now

[milestogo]

16. Unless they turn it over to USPS to deliver, in which case it sometimes disappears.

Its happened to me more than once.

[doc03]

6. My current mail carrier shows up anywhere from

Noon til 5pm. Other than that ok.

[Celerity]

7. They are horrific with international shipments. So many nightmares I have had in such a short time.

[Hoyt]

12. However, international shipping using FedEx or UPS is worse & much more expensive in my experience.

[Celerity]

14. Exact opposite for me. Also, I am receiving packages sent from the US, not the other way around.

No other carrier from the US to the EU/UK has been remotely as bad for me as the USPS has. I absolutely refuse to deal with them anymore, whether for business or personal use. If a US firm has no other way to ship here to Sweden, they will not get my business. I have never been flat out lied to by an organisation as often as I have been by the USPS. They have not only fucked me over multiple times, but also friends and family in the US.

Your mileage may vary.

[milestogo]

17. Thanks for your input.

It's disappointing but not surprising.

[Smackdown2019]

9. I been with them since 1997.

It's has its ups and downs. Service is in the name, just feel that upper management has forgot that element.

I really wish we were back as a Department, not a quasi-government run operation.

Reason I say that...

We are federal employees....

[Skittles]

10. when people complain about a long line at the post office

I remember when I regularly sent packages to troops - I'd be there at a certain time on a certain day of the week and I would be the only one and could walk straight to the counter....so I'd think, I will come this same time and day next time........but when I did, the line would be long....I tried several experiments and realized it was all just hit and miss.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I do live in a small town, which has it's pluses and minuses.

But I haven't seen any change in service in recent years.

[renate]

13. My parents are in a small town and their post office is SO underfunded

There’s one employee now, only part time, who is absolutely busting her butt to take care of everything. She has to buy stamps out of her own pocket at other post offices so the people at her post office can buy some. It’s awful all around and she’s making herself ill from working so hard.

[Mr.Bill]

15. That sucks.

I guess I'm not in that small of a town. Population here is about 10,000. County-wide it's 60,000.

[marie999]

18. We have lived in this rural area for 20 years. Never a problem with delivery.

All our medications are from the VA and we track them and they all have shown up on time. The people who work in the post office are very friendly and helpful. When Florence hit and damaged the post office they had a truck 6 days a week in the parking lot. It was the kind of truck where the side opens up like a taco truck.

[In It to Win It]

19. They get the job done. My satisfaction with the USPS is the same with the private couriers

…but USPS is significantly cheaper, which I like.

[spanone]

20. Their tracking system is horrible. 3 at best.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. I didn't have any problems with them until De Joy took over.

[KentuckyWoman]

22. The last few years is pretty bad.

Bad in more than one state. For the sake of those workers, and America generally, I hope it can be fixed.

[Lancero]

23. I've had sporadic issues for years now, but that's due to my address being screwy.

Weird shit inevitably happens when you're essentially in the middle of two small towns, and pretty much every mail handing service (Or, well, any service that wants your address for whatever reason) has your address listed for two separate zipcodes.

And things hardly get easier when you've got another house a half-mile west of you has a similar house number but you both use separate post offices.

It gets even more fun for the people who live twoish miles west of me, thats when we get a third towns zipcode involved. Because, apparently, this shitshow wasn't crowded enough already.