So today, I emailed my Congressman (an idiot by the way) [View all]

[TNNurse]

wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper and posted on Facebook. I will email my equally idiotic Senators later today.

We live in Blount County, TN. We live out in the country. Our mail used to be delivered by carriers who have to provide and maintain their vehicles. Our last mail was delivered Tuesday the 10th. On Wednesday, I put a piece of mail out to be picked up, a bill payment. Later that afternoon I saw a US Mail truck zip by without stopping. Friday, I took that mail out of the box and drove to the post office in Maryville. We have a Maryville address. I spoke to a "supervisor". I was told that half of their carriers were out for various reasons. When I mentioned the mail truck he informed me that those are for Amazon deliveries (which I knew) and that "Amazon has priority, it is in the contract". We have had no mail delivery since and I checked with neighbors who agreed. I was shown at the PO, really large Amazon boxes that were needing to be delivered. One of them would have filled that mail truck. He also said that their sorting equipment measured up to 40# and some of them Amazon boxes were heavier than that. He also said he could not find subs....well at 20$/ hr and having to maintain a vehicle that is adapted, that is just not realistic for part time work.

The Post Office is in the US Constitution. Amazon is not. I know that many assholes in the GOP have been trying to destroy the postal service so they can make if profitable for them and their pals for years. The cost of mailing a letter has gone up many many times recently, but it still cheaper than a letter via UPS or FedEx.

I am furious. I can decide to pay bills online or by direct withdrawal but MANY PEOPLE CANNOT DO THAT. We can rent a PO box and drive to town 15 miles every day and back home 15 miles just to get our mail.

Why have we not been able to remove Dejoy and get some sanity back in the USPS????