The USPS mail is crazy

We live in Topeka, Kansas; the state's capital. In the Post Office's infinite wisdom they closed down the big, main post office in Topeka and several more in NE Kansas. Now, all local mail goes through Kansas City. So if I mail a birthday card to the person down the block, It has to go to Kansas City first. It takes about a week - 10 days. A letter mailed from California gets here faster. WTH?
Add to that the fact that letter carriers are not what they used to be! the pay, benefits and retirement are nowhere near what they used to be. There isn't a week goes by that I don't get someone else's mail, or someone else gets mine.
@Moparone's comment about the mail in ballots is spot on. That is why you are seeing all the stories in the media about the COVID rise. They want to re-introduce/increase mail in Ballots.