Am I The Only One Getting Frustrated With The USPS?

I send and receive mail daily. I have had very few things things lost over the years surprisingly enough, never anything "High Dollar" thankfully. It is never the high dollar items that come up missing, but it was the most important to me once. I grew up in Carlisle Ohio, a very small town. I have searched Ebay and other sites daily for 20 years, trying to find anything cancelled in Carlisle, Ohio. The first one I found was 10 years ago or so, yes, I had already been searching for 10 years at that item. I bought it on Ebay, it was about a 1900 envelope. It was only $5, so I thought I did great, but the anticipation to get it was killing me, as I always wanted one from my home town post office. What happened, it never arrived...neverrrr! It was lost to the black hole called "USPS". It took me another 5 years to find another Carlisle, Ohio cancellation, and I now have 3. Just got my third one a few months ago now. As a seller on Ebay, I mail most stamps in an envelope, with no tracking, all the time. My limit for sending with no tracking is $25. If it is over $25, I will send it first class, in a bubble mailer, just to get the tracking on it. I have only had to refund 1 person for a stamp in 22 years of selling on Ebay. I think I have had about 5 items never arrive from a seller in 22 years buying on Ebay, and none were high value. One time, the same person sent me the same twice, and I never got either one. Not sure if it was him or the Post Office that time, but he refunded me money. i have never had anything in a box not arrive when I mailed it. Oh, I had people tell me they never got it, until I told them the tracking shows they received it, then they shut up of course. i do hate people like that. But overall, I guess I have been lucky, in over 20,000 transactions, USPS has lost less than 10 items total, not too bad in my case. But to me, one is too many for the amount we pay them to get our items where they are supposed to go. You would think, for the amount we pay now, they would treat every item like gold and ensure it gets there on time and undamaged. Ok, my turn to shut up now.

My mail lady signs for my stuff for me and leaves it. But, she has been delivering my mail for 25 year snow and I live on a small dead end street where no one ever comes down. I am never there when she comes, so she just leaves packages on my front porch for me.

Canada Post (or Israel post) is very slow. @kostia sent me a letter a month ago (?) and it has yet to arrive. Maybe CBSA (Canadian Border Services Agency) has their greedy paws on it in Ottawa, holding it up. In any case, I hope it arrives soon!

Same with my package from Britain with the Stoneham catalog. I am still waiting for that too. CBSA must be at it again! You'd think their database would include me as a stamp collector & all mailings are safe to import!