We Overpay the Post Office

I got up early this morning so that I could remember to mail something. It's not that unusual, my memory being what it is, I write myself lists all the time.  I set a piece of mail out to go first thing this morning.  Here is what happened:
The postal carrier did not pick it up. When I called the Auburn, Indiana Post Office, I was told that if I don't have mail to be delivered, the carrier does not stop to pick up the mail. When I complained, he laughed at me and told me a different version of "good luck with that."
What are we paying for?  The Post Office needs to be scrapped and replaced with a private company that will not lose 4 billion dollars a year.  So then I went online to get a number to call the Post Office and (surprise!) got a machine and was asked to leave a message.  After I did that, I went online to get a number to speak to someone.  I was asked to call back because his system wasn't working. I was on hold for almost 15 minutes before someone picked up my call.
When did the Post Office quit working for us?  They have the nicest benefits package around, and the salary they receive is pretty dang nice. also.
When ever I go to the Post Office to stand in line-I love wasting 20 minutes in a line when there are 8 people standing around behind the screen-it's the same routine. Long line spanning out the door, one person taking her sweet time to wait on customers, 8 other people standing or walking around.
If the Post Office does away with Saturday delivery, they may as well shut the door.  The cost of a stamp has gone up 340% since I was little, and the service is horrid.  The mail carrier I am cursed with must double back almost every week to give me my mail that he forgot.  I was waiting for an important package that he simply did not deliver for three days.
Thank God for the web site that allows you to track your packages. It was through that that I found out my package had been delivered to my local Post Office at 3 that morning. The carrier did not give me the package because I did not have any mail to pick up I guess. Either way, I made a call to the local branch, and after explaining that I KNEW it was in, the useless carrier circled back around and gave me my package.  What was he going to do with it?  Of course, being the same carrier that couldn't deliver my mail correctly when I moved EXACTLY ONE BLOCK NORTH, I do not expect much.
So far, I have been on hold for over forty minutes, and have been given a false number to continue with my complaint.
It turns out that the crap about not stopping if you don't have mail to be delivered is a lie. Golly, lied to by the Post Office, who would have thunk it!
Call your elected officials, ask them why this monument to incompetence is still in business losing your tax dollars hand over fist.  You'll thank me later.