Slow Shipping USPS

Some folks my feel the need to blame the new PMG. Truth of the matter is the USPS has been a bleeding ulcer. I worked in one of the biggest processing plants. Quick idea of how things work. The opening unit, 010, was supposed to have been done by 11:15 p.m. Last trucks did not show up until 11:30. Which means nightly OT. For not only 010 but some of automation, because tour 1 could not finish any mail left by tour 3 (stupid yes but welcome to the USPS). The next day all 75 employees in 010 stood around idle for 3 hours, waiting for mail to show up. then this happens again...The opening unit, 010, was supposed to have been done by 11:15 p.m. Last trucks did not show up until 11:30. Which means nightly OT. For not only 010 but some of automation, because tour 1 could not finish any mail left by tour 3 (stupid yes but welcome to the USPS). Care to guess what the next day would be like?..instead of just adjusting mail pick up times/dispatch times the USPS hands out OT like it is candy. Then complains how the "craft employees" are why the USPS has not been in the black for decades. Hmmm...that seems more like a logistics (there is management personal with that title) issue.
One day I was on break. I counted 14 fully loaded car carriers of mini vans pulling into the back of the USPS. These vehicles were parked in the corner of the employee lot. Twice a month a company was paid to come out and pressure wash the entire fleet of them, where they sat. 5 years later not one of these vehicles had moved. Many of them had flats (tires dry rot quickly in the AZ heat). About this time an employee of the Bulk Mail unit needed to go out to a mailer to look into a problem. None of the vehicles that she would have normally used were available, so management decided to send her in one of the mini vans. Took her over 90 minutes to find one that did not have a dead battery...and would start.
I ordered something a while back. Tracking said the USPS took possession of it on June 1st. It arrived on July 20th. Was a Priority package, departing from CA heading to WA.
I started me sentence with the USPS in January of 1991. Was paroled on August 5th 2008. The entire time one thing I always said....the reason the USPS is NEVER in the black is because of the way it operates. To pay 40 employees OT nightly, due to poorly scheduled arrival/dispatch times only to have the same 40 employees standing around for 3-4 hours the next day is simply stupid. To have 2 employees per supervisor is simply stupid. I think it is time that the USPS gets run like a business....not the joke it is now....#weldthedoorsshut