I really don't understand how the USPS operates. There's got to be something I'm missing. Why does a package travel about 50 miles towards your town, and then backtrack about 100 miles in the opposite direction passed where it started out... I shouldn't watch tracking, it just drives me crazy.
One only needs to look at how USPS transports items to understand why they are flat-ass broke. Here we go, real world example. I mailed a certified letter in Bonne Terre, MO, addressed
to a house in Bonne Terre, MO. Same zip code...about ten miles away from the post office. It travels approximately 80 miles to the St. Louis, MO sorting center. That's approximately 70 miles
past it's destination. It then travels south to the Cape Girardeau, MO sorting center. This is approximately 160 miles from the St. Louis, MO sorting center. It is then sent
back this way to the Park Hills, MO sorting center which is about five miles south of the Bonne Terre, MO post office where this all began. From there? It gets lost. In fact,
three fucking certified letters were all lost with the last known location in Park Hills, MO. All addressed to Bonne Terre, MO with a mailing address approximately 10 miles from the originating location!
And as annoying as that is, every package or letter mailed here, regardless if the delivery address is next door to the post office....it has to go to St. Louis, then Cape Girardeau, then Park Hills....to be delivered a literal
stone's throw away next door.
This redundant
bullshit is why the postal service is so screwed up and broke. They want to save money? Don't send a fucking letter on a thousand-mile round trip only to come back damn near where it was mailed for delivery! They would even score bonus points if it wasn't all beat to shit, completely destroyed or y'know...didn't magically disappear in a puff of fucking smoke!