But now, look at what we have...the package carriers that are for profit are relying on whom to deliver to remote areas and deliver small packages/envelopes? The USPS.

 

Why wouldn't they? It's obviously a sweet deal for them. Let the USPS lose the money. They need to quit doing it and UPS and FedEx will adjust.

For the record, I rarely use USPS myself. Not because I dislike what they offer, but the advent of online bill pay, and going paperless for virtually every account I have has allowed me to often receive no mail at all, and rarely post a letter. Literally, I may get 1 or 2 pieces of mail a month that I consider significant. Most is junk mail. There's nothing the post office can do to make mailing a letter a more attractive option for people like me, who pretty much have no real use for the service. I don't often ship packages. However, when I do want a package to be sent to a person far away, I typically shop online and have the package delivered from the retailer to the receipient directly. I would suspect some are sent USPS, at least as through SmartPost. None of this is the fault of the Post Office. It's just advancement.

For the record, I rarely use USPS myself. Not because I dislike what they offer, but the advent of online bill pay, and going paperless for virtually every account I have has allowed me to often receive no mail at all, and rarely post a letter. Literally, I may get 1 or 2 pieces of mail a month that I consider significant. Most is junk mail. There's nothing the post office can do to make mailing a letter a more attractive option for people like me, who pretty much have no real use for the service. I don't often ship packages. However, when I do want a package to be sent to a person far away, I typically shop online and have the package delivered from the retailer to the receipient directly. I would suspect some are sent USPS, at least as through SmartPost. None of this is the fault of the Post Office. It's just advancement.

 

Your post applies to more and more people every day. The postal service as failed to adjust, hence $1.9B loss.

I mail a few hundred packages a year (eBay) via the USPS. Never had one lost yet.

 

Send and receive a lot this way and I am with you, no problems.

For the record, I rarely use USPS myself. Not because I dislike what they offer, but the advent of online bill pay, and going paperless for virtually every account I have has allowed me to often receive no mail at all, and rarely post a letter. Literally, I may get 1 or 2 pieces of mail a month that I consider significant. Most is junk mail. There's nothing the post office can do to make mailing a letter a more attractive option for people like me, who pretty much have no real use for the service. I don't often ship packages. However, when I do want a package to be sent to a person far away, I typically shop online and have the package delivered from the retailer to the recipient directly. I would suspect some are sent USPS, at least as through SmartPost. None of this is the fault of the Post Office. It's just advancement.

 

I'm in very much the same boat. If the junk mail I get stopped my mail carrier would likely only stop at my house once a week.

 

Until Congress and the unions let the USPS make SMART changes to improve efficiency (reduce delivery days, close extremely small post offices) the losses will continue.