Some insight into US Mail shipping and how to package items for it, from someone who hauls it.

[A HERETIC I AM]

95. Wait....what?

I don't think you recognize the wage suppression and theft of service that is occurring.

Ummmm...did you miss the part where I said I was a truck driver? The people in my industry haven't had a raise outside of inflation in 40 years!

We are paying a surcharge that delivers profits to a few instead of good wages and benefits to many.

But are we though? The United States Post Office is very heavily unionized and the workers have excellent fringe benefits. I am a Teamster, so even though all of our wages could be higher, I make a decent living and so do most of the people I interact with every day. The company I work for and the others like it are certainly profitable businesses, but so are any number of other government contractors. You seem to think it would be cheaper if the mail was moved intercity by US Postal Service employees, or that things would be better if it was. I'm not sure how or why that would be.

And as you saw in the article

Article? Do you mean the Original Post up at the top? The one that I WROTE? Me? A HERETIC I AM?!?

no one cares about damage.

Nowhere, and I mean NOWHERE did I say or even suggest that "no one cares about damage". That is not the point I was trying to convey, and insinuating it was is disingenuous. I said "It isn't as if no one cares, its more like, as I said above, the volume handled is just enormous." Which in no way means anything like "no one cares about damage".

There is no accountability for mishandling.

You clearly have no idea what goes into moving the amount of packages the Post Office handles and how things are managed. THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY, ON THE ORDER OF 99.999% of US Mail arrives at it's destination safely and damage free. It is not 100% to be sure, but if you saw inside even one of the large sorting centers during a major sort process, you could get a tiny idea of the almost incomprehensible overall volume nationwide. The USPS makes FedEx and UPS look like pikers when it comes to handling individual pieces on a daily basis. The fact that more items aren't damaged is a testament to the procedures that have been in constant development for well over 2 centuries and the fine people who implement them

Profit first, not service first

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THAT is an opinion, one that you are entitled to, but one that is clearly born from an inaccurate understanding of how things work in the industry I am involved in.

Have a great day and a happy holiday season.