Excerpt: I’m tired of watching postal workers break their backs just to deliver Amazon boxes while our regular mail piles up. This deal is out of control and nobody wants to talk about it.

Posted by Camilla

I’ve had enough of what’s happening with USPS and these endless Amazon packages. Every time I go to my mailbox now, I see my mail later, smaller, and crushed between boxes that don’t even belong there. This isn’t the postal service I grew up with. It feels like USPS doesn’t even deliver for the people anymore — they deliver for Amazon.

Workers are finally speaking out, and I don’t blame them. They’re overloaded, underpaid, and flat-out exhausted. Trucks stuffed so full they can’t even shut the doors, mail carriers delivering in the dark, and managers still demanding that everything gets done no matter what. People online have said it straight — USPS has turned into Amazon’s backup service. Some carriers said their whole route is basically Amazon now, and they can’t even finish on time. How is that normal?

This mess started when USPS made that deal with Amazon back in 2018 to help cover falling mail revenue. They thought more packages meant more money, but it just broke the system. The post office wasn’t built for this kind of volume. The infrastructure is outdated — old trucks, small loading docks, barely enough space to move — and management refuses to admit they can’t handle it. Now we’ve got burned-out workers, late deliveries, and mail stacking up because the focus is on getting Amazon’s stuff out first.

I’ve seen this with my own deliveries. Packages show up crushed or left in random places. Sometimes I get a slip saying to come pick it up myself because it “didn’t fit in the locker.” That’s not delivery — that’s chaos. Neighbors have told me their mail’s been showing up after 8 p.m., and sometimes not at all. It’s ridiculous. USPS was supposed to be dependable. Now it’s just struggling to keep up with the e-commerce monster it partnered with.

What nobody talks about is the safety side of this. These carriers are working longer hours, running heavier routes, and driving old trucks that weren’t designed for this kind of load. It’s dangerous. People are slipping, falling, dealing with exhaustion, even collapsing in the heat just to keep up. For what? To make sure Amazon customers don’t complain about a late delivery? It’s sickening to think how far the postal service has fallen just to please one company.

The customers aren’t happy either. People pay for Prime and still end up waiting days longer when their packages hit USPS hands. I’ve seen folks online begging Amazon not to ship through USPS anymore because it always ends in delays or lost packages. Imagine that — people actually trying to avoid the postal service that’s supposed to serve everyone. That should tell you something.

Let’s be honest. USPS took the deal for survival. Mail was dying, and they needed money. But they didn’t plan for what came with it — the overload, the strain, the breakdowns. They traded stability for short-term gain, and now both workers and customers are paying the price. It’s not just about business anymore. It’s about dignity and safety. It’s about workers not being treated like robots and customers not getting ignored.

And what’s Amazon doing while all this goes on? Expanding, smiling, cashing in. They offload the “last mile” onto USPS and wash their hands clean. USPS does the hardest part for the lowest rate. It’s unfair, and it’s unsustainable. USPS isn’t built to be Amazon’s private carrier. It’s supposed to serve the public, and that mission is getting buried under cardboard.

I’m tired of seeing my mail delayed. I’m tired of seeing postal workers running around in 90-degree heat because they’re forced to deliver someone’s mountain of online orders. And I’m tired of watching management pretend it’s fine. It’s not fine. It’s falling apart.

We need accountability. We need transparency. We need to know how much of USPS’s daily volume is really Amazon’s and how it’s impacting service for everyone else. Workers deserve better, and so do we. This isn’t just about bad management — it’s about a public service being quietly taken over by corporate greed.

Until someone fixes this, USPS is going to keep crumbling under Amazon’s weight. And the rest of us will keep waiting at the mailbox, wondering what happened to the service that used to put the people first.