StevieAus

[StevieAus]

18 hours ago, NancyL said:

Yup, probably so.  Hubby and I used to take on seasonal work with USPS back in the U.S. when we had a greenhouse/nursery business and didn't have much to do around Christmas.  It was run, run, run to get the packages moving through the sorting facility near the Detroit airport.  And they decided Hubby was a bright bulb and would keep him on longer, well into March, when he was part of a small team that shut down their Christmas seasonal facilities and would discover all the stuff that hadn't been delivered because it had been kicked to the side or left in a bag that had been thought empty.    They were instructed to simply put any undelivered items back into the mail stream without any note or explanation.  Christmas cookies from Grandma for Easter?  

I suspect also that much of the carriage of the mail particularly overseas is contracted out and when the contractor cannot meet the service standards it is dumped

Cannot be any other explanation as for the rest of the year to be fair there doesn’t seem to be a problem