Far be it from me to interject a different (not opposing) view,
When did a persons expectations expand to expect immediate satisfaction from an organization that ships millions upon millions of packages every day?

Electronic tracking hasn’t even been around that long.

Now it seems we’ve convinced ourselves that we need to grab pitchforks and torches and run down to the local post office and start skewering people over a package that the tracking isn’t updated.

Myself I feel that’s unreasonable expectation.

I remember the days not long ago a package that was ordered mail order would take six weeks to two months to get to you. And we accepted that happily.

Now we want it now, or we go apoplectic.

Hiring practices at the US postal service give extraordinary preference to the veterans we so revere.

The imaginary lazy [censored - Hard Stop on oblique posting!] thieving slacker is a former military hero.

That, my doublegun friends, is what they call cognitive dissonance.


Stan’s answer is the simplest, most straightforward one. Identify the level of service you require, and be willing to pay for it.


Out there doing it best I can.