You make a good point regarding Saturdays. A few years ago I got a post card telling me I had a certified letter (from the IRS no less) and if not for the PO being open on Saturday I would had to take off work early to go to the PO to pick it up. Other than that however, the only mail I get is 99.9% junk mail.
All my bills are delivered electronically and I pay all my bills electronically. And if I need to receive or send anything of value or importance I use FedEx. The USPS could close every other day or shut down completely and I’d barely notice the difference
I’m with you on the general irrelevance of the USPS in my daily life, but as you mention, there are some things that require interaction with them.
My funniest USPS moment: I was getting my passport (I had lived 30+ years without one) and the line wasn’t too bad, but I had waited about 25 minutes on a lunch hour to get to the front. With the transaction only requiring one more step, the fire alarm went off. The clerk could have easily stamped/done whatever she needed to do to complete the file and I could have gone on my merry way. By the second tone of the alarm, she had dropped everything and said “everyone out”.
I spent the next 45 minutes waiting outside with a bunch of giddy postal employees, thrilled for the unscheduled break. I couldn’t return to my office because my documents (including birth certificate) were sitting literally in plain view on a postal counter. When the all clear was given, I spent a grand total of approximately 45 seconds wrapping the transaction up.
I’m sure there are good people who work for the USPS. But organizationally, they suck.