Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by cft on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:11PM (#24030299)

I was in Guatemala and learned to my surprise that its national post has been disbanded. There's no functioning postal service of any kind, only private couriers.

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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by elliekelly on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:30PM (#24030480)

How does that even work? By private couriers do you mean companies similar to UPS and FedEx? Or private couriers like the bike couriers in US cities? If I needed to mail documents to the other side of the country, for example, could I just drop it off at a storefront or would I have to hire one person to take the envelope the whole length of the journey?

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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by cft on Sunday August 02, 2020 @05:52PM (#24032089)

Not even FedEx, you literally hire a guy to deliver an envelope say from Guatemala City to Xela.

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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by jt94mf90d on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:38PM (#24030540)

The cartels could step in as a national postal carrier. Set postage agreements, and postage rates for garanteed services.

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