Just an FYI – This may be coming to rural carrier carriers also.
USPS Correspondence 5381, dated September 17, 2026, is notification the Postal Service will be conducting a pilot called, Amazon PM Delivery Pilot. This pilot involves afternoon drops from Amazon between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM (local time), that are then sorted by the clerks manually and available for same day delivery by City Carriers between the hours of 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM.
Ugh can we finally pull the plug on usps and let the private companies take over? Lazy government employees need to stop being bailed out by the taxpayers for providing an inferior service
Did you ever stop and wonder why these private companies want to farm out to the postal service? Because they don’t want to do it! People want free shipping all the time, but they somehow don’t think of the ramifications on the service side.
First off, the USPS is not funded by your tax dollars. Operations are funded entirely by postage and service sales, not a line item in your federal taxes. As for the bail outs you need to take that up with your representatives and be mad at them. The private carriers you want to take over? They regularly drop packages off at our loading docks through last-mile delivery agreements because servicing every single address in America—regardless of profit margin—isn’t commercially viable for them. By constitutional mandate, we go everywhere.
Calling the entire workforce “lazy government employees” ignores the reality of how the postal service actually operates. We are quasi-government, which means we get all the legal restrictions of federal workers with almost none of the perks:
No strike protections: By federal law, we cannot strike for better working conditions, yet we do not receive standard federal benefits like paid parental leave unless the union negotiates it.
No shutdown relief or extended federal holidays: When the government shuts down, we report to work. During severe weather or national emergencies, we are on the street with zero hazard pay.
Two-tier wage systems: Anyone hired after 2011 was placed on a significantly lower pay scale, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars less over a career than senior counterparts doing the exact same physical labor.
Excluded from federal perks: Most standard civil-service benefits, housing programs, and federal discounts do not apply to postal craft employees.
Nobody is more frustrated with systemic failure than the carriers who actually do the job right. Top-heavy management, poor logistics decisions, and a chronic lack of accountability allow low performers to slide by while burning out the people who carry the actual weight.
The service doesn’t need to be dismantled and privatized so corporations can price-gouge rural routes. It needs serious internal accountability: clearing out dead weight in management and the crafts, rewarding competence, and supporting the workforce that takes pride in delivering six days a week in every condition.
As a long time rural carrier, I agree 1000%. I’m forced to work six days every week now, when I used to work five – for less money.
That is one of the best comments I have ever read.
Well Done!!!!
I find it so frustrating that none of the new “PMGs”
Who have “real world” knowledge never seem to
do anything but make it worse??
Why is that???
I can say with my whole chest, if it comes to rural I will not participate. I did not sign up to be an Amazon carrier, we already get so much Amazon as it is, I will not spend more time delivering for them than I already do. We deserve time with our families and to live our lives. Unless they plan on having people specifically for this scheduled. Good luck getting people to comply.
On the rural side, one problem I see with this is what if rurals are finished with their routes before the 2PM start? It’s not the norm but it’s unusual for some carriers in our office (to say nothing of aux routes) to finish before noon.
Hell no.