I do e-commerce, you can’t really judge the mail by how long something takes to arrive because some/most mail will always move it’s not like things slow down across the board it’s just that some things they get to quickly and some things get left aside and neglected, it’s not all encompassing where if there are less employees everything is delayed...no its that some things get attention and some don’t and a lot more mistakes are made along the way. The most common mistake being things sorted incorrectly and going to the wrong processing centers in the wrong city’s which even if its one county over it will severely delay a shipment for some reason, sometimes sitting idle for weeks and nobody including my USPS rep has been able to tell me why this happens but if you ask me it’s because all these places performance is tracked so why would they care about someone else’s mail it’s at the bottom of the barrel of concerns.
So you more so have to judge it by how many things are getting lost, by lost I mean it’s sitting idle the tracking hasn’t moved for a week or even more. It’s actually extremely rare for something to just disappear and be gone forever.
That being said even with the small amount of orders I’ve been processing over the past couple weeks I’ve had a considerable number of people reporting late mail and dead tracking numbers.
Also I’ve been pounding my former mail carrier and she says a lot of people haven’t been coming in as the union is supporting their choice not to do so.
So yea...mail is pretty shitty right now you can throw delivery estimates out the window but shit is eventually showing up.