My wife has given up on sending birthday, holiday cards, etc. by USPS. She signed up for a card service that allows you to customize digital cards and they get there on the date you want them delivered. I think it was $25 a year. We don¡¯t know anyone who doesn¡¯t have an email address or some type of Internet device that they can view cards and pictures on. DeJoy may be gone from the USPS, but his legacy of destruction will live on. If it wasn¡¯t for ads, supermarket fliers and the like, we wouldn¡¯t get very much mail. And a book of 20 stamps lasts close to a year now.
Steve, N4EUK
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On May 7, 2025, at 12:34, Andrew, W5AWS via groups.io <w5aws@...> wrote:
?At least with QRP there is a good chance that one's transmission results in successful communication.
Louis DeJoy is responsible for degradation of the post office. Under his tenure as postmaster general, he reorganized operations to supposedly make them more efficient. He has conflicts of interest that make it worth his while to destroy or privatize the post office, driving business to companies with which he is associated.
A lot of local mail sorting is now centralized at distant locations, so a letter that is destined across town has to go to a processing center a long way away. I sent a letter to an international destination, it never made it out of the country, returned to me as undeliverable; I had to hand it in again at my local post office for another attempt. Just last week, I had a letter destined across town returned to me marked undeliverable; I telephoned the recipient to check that he was still alive then handed the letter in to the post office desk clerk yet again.
On April 29, I sent a registered letter internationally with return delivery notification. It reached the processing center in Coppell, TX, on April 30 at 1808 hrs where it has remained for the last seven days. For about the same cost, I could have sent it in a FedEx envelope and had it reach its destination by now, if not sooner.
As you may imagine, in future I won't be using USPS for anything important.
Andrew, W5AWS.
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