Ideally, the United States Postal Service should be as speedy as the Pony Express. But lately, many customers have found it to be more like a broken-down mule.
Douglas Mahrer is one of them. The McMurray resident has not received any magazines in a month, and a package that was shipped from St. Louis on Dec. 15 had not landed on his doorstep as of Monday. And he sent a package to Connecticut on Dec. 12. In theory, it should have taken three days for it to travel 400 miles or so. Instead, it finally arrived at its destination on Dec. 26.
Mahrer doesnât fault mail carriers, but, he points out, âMy view is USPS has done a disservice to its customers by failing to disclose their problems, as well as show what they are doing to correct them.â