Welcome to 3rd world systems...where delivery people do not bother.
We have reached NEGATIVE marginal utility with much of our government, health, and especially education bureaucracies - the MORE money that is added, the WORSE they become
Absolutely correct. Our mail hubs are dominated by the privileged group whose race shall not be mentioned. Drunkenness, drug use, and miscreant behavior are rampant. Sleeping on the job. Looting gift cards from envelopes. It is behavior you'd expect in a third world African country.
In Indonesia, the post office (Kantor Pos) has been for many years been polled as the most efficient and trustworthy agency in the entire government. I have used their services for over thirty years, and never had a problem.
I think what happens when they get heavy package traffic, say at East Point, they just throw all the unsorted stuff off to some other center on a truck just to get it out of their center and not ‘overload’. The packages then take a 3-4 day ping-pong trip there and comes back when they’re settled down