You may or may not be aware of this….
In fact?
Amazon ships more package’s then FedEx and UPS ….
The US Post Office believers Amazon package’s just like those grey panel trucks with the Amazon logo on it…..
As a matter of fact?
The Post Office mail men/women deliver more packages than any other service because they actually deliver FOR all of the three package outfits also….
In the linked piece below?
We see serving to many masters gets the mail shoved into the background in places….
“I thought my carrier was out hunting,” Mikelson said over a breakfast of eggs and pancakes at Raphael’s Bakery Cafe in downtown Bemidji.
But it wasn’t the buck hunt delaying the mail in Bemidji, a tiny town 100 miles south of the Canadian border where welcome signs are written in both English and Ojibwe and statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox tower in downtown. Since early November, Bemidji has been bombarded by a sudden onslaught of Amazon packages — and local posta
The result has been chaos at the Bemidji post office. Mail is getting backed up, sometimes for days, leaving local residents waiting for checks, credit card statements, health insurance documents and tax rebates. Routes meant to take eight or nine hours are stretching to 10 or 12. At least five carriers have quit, and the post office has banned scheduled sick days for the rest of the year, carriers say.
“If we keep getting this volume, plus Christmas coming, we won’t survive,” one Bemidji post office employee said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect her job. “We aren’t equipped for this.”
Mail carriers have “expressed a lot of concern about the volume of work,” Mayor Jorge Prince said after finishing his own breakfast at Raphael’s, a bustling diner lined with vintage cookie jars. But the Bemidji City Council has no jurisdiction over the U.S. Postal Service, and the same goes for the local fire marshal, who was called in last Monday because the Amazon packages were stacked precariously high.
Dennis Nelson, a veteran mail carrier, said he got so frustrated watching multiple co-workers “breaking down and crying” that he staged a symbolic strike earlier this month outside the post office where he has worked for more than 20 years.
“I have to do something,” Nelson said. “It feels like we should be wearing shirts that say ‘USPS: Brought to you by Amazon.com.’”….
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The situation stems from a crisis at the Postal Service, which has lost $6.5 billion in the past year. The post office has had a contract with Amazon since 2013, when it started delivering packages on Sundays. But in recent years, that business has exploded as Amazon has increasingly come to rely on postal carriers to make “last-mile” deliveries in harder-to-reach rural locations…..