USPS

The letter below was sent to my father by the apartment complex he rents from.  It says that the United States Post Office has become so horribly unreliable that they can no longer use it to send him his water bill.

The current Postmaster General, appointed by Donald Trump and retained by Joe Biden, plans to "fix" the post office by making it slower, more expensive, and less convenient.  Seriously!

I don't understand why basic services provided by every other Western democracy are such a struggle for us.  We're clearly doing something wrong.

P.O.'d

Yesterday I received a Christmas card from my sister-- a card she had mailed two months ago.

Mona recently sent a card to my Dad, who lives three miles away.  It took two weeks to get there.

The post office used to be so good, and now they are almost useless.  We've had to start paying all our bills online, not because we want to, but because we were being hammered by late fees in spite of mailing payment sometimes weeks before the due date.

We can't depend on them anymore.

And that's a shame.