It's actually even worse than when it started. The post office based the contract on much more volume than they are getting now. Since the contract went into effect the Amazon fulfillment center started sending trucks (Independents) with skids of orders early every morning to local rural post offices leaving the POs with the most expensive last mile. They forced Amazon to deliver their packages on sundays in the majority of cities. Then in big metropolitan areas like NYC they started up independent deliveries where drivers can deliver hundreds of packages on a single a block in Manhattan or with a small van with the same volume in a square mile in the outer boros. These deliveries to densly populated areas are gone from the PO. All that is left are the rural areas that are very expensive to go to eery day.
It's actually even worse than when it started. The post office based the contract on much more volume than they are getting now. Since the contract went into effect the Amazon fulfillment center started sending trucks (Independents) with skids of orders early every morning to local rural post offices leaving the POs with the most expensive last mile. They forced Amazon to deliver their packages on sundays in the majority of cities. Then in big metropolitan areas like NYC they started up independent deliveries where drivers can deliver hundreds of packages on a single a block in Manhattan or with a small van with the same volume in a square mile in the outer boros. These deliveries to densly populated areas are gone from the PO. All that is left are the rural areas that are very expensive to go to eery day.