Its not a problem around here. Our postmistress goes well above and beyond. She called me last weekend to tell me to not bother coming down because the mail hadn’t been delivered yet.
If I’ve already made my daily trip to the post office and UPS or FedEx delivers a package, she calls me and tells me. I’ve seen her copy dosage info and print it large for one of my elderly neighbors who couldn’t read it.
Around here its where all the neighbors catch up on all the local news and gossip. In fact that’s one of the things Franklin intended. He even mentioned it in his testimony to the house of commons when he was explaining the growing unrest against the crown.
I have seen post office clerks locking doors early and laughing at people trying to get in to mail letters. Once I saw a clerk come very close to assaulting a customer. I really thought he was going to punch a young girl who started crying when he wouldn't sell her stamps. (I bought some stamps and gave them to her outside the building.)