I thought this was bound to happen due to the sabotage of the post office that is somewhat bipartisan but increased with Trump term 1. But yesterday my grandmother just got a birthday card she had sent to me two years ago returned as “undeliverable” despite the address being correct and the postage paid. And this also caused me to find out that this happened to several other relatives, though without the two year delay, despite the address and postage being definitely correct.
it’s been going downhill since they started neoliberalizing it in the 1980s (“running it like a corporation”), which led to the phenomenon we now know as “going postal”