Current Administration is trying its best to shirk the Constitution’s requirement for the US Postal Service to exist and is trying to damage it such that the idea of a Private Postal Service can be sold to the electorate.
Each of the other carriers mentioned want all the EASY/profitable deliveries that USPS has and want USPS to do the expensive hard to effect final mile deliveries to ALL the addresses USPS is Constitutionally required to provide service to.
“To establish Post Offices and post Roads”
So only Congress has the power not executive branch
Congress may have the power, but it doesn’t matter if they don’t use it.
Here’s what I get in a Copilot search. The gist is that the postal system can be whatever congress decides it should be. Including nonexistent. There is no constitutional mandate for a postal system of any kind.
Copilot says:
"The Constitution does not require a government‑run postal service. It permits Congress to create and operate one if it chooses.
Below is the constitutional reasoning, grounded in text, history, and court interpretation.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 provides:
“The Congress shall have Power to establish Post Offices and post Roads.”
This language is a grant of power, not a mandate. It authorizes Congress to act; it does not command Congress to do so.
In constitutional structure, when the Framers intended to impose a duty, they used mandatory language (“shall”), directed at outcomes (for example, holding elections or meeting annually). Here, “shall have Power” means Congress may establish post offices, not that it must.
At the time of ratification, postal systems already existed under the Continental Congress and earlier British administration. The Framers chose language that enabled continuation, not one that permanently locked in a specific institutional form.
James Madison described the postal power as a matter of “public conveniency,” emphasizing its usefulness rather than its necessity as a constitutionally required institution.
Importantly, the Articles of Confederation had given Congress the “sole and exclusive right” to establish post offices. The Constitution removed that exclusivity language and replaced it with a general enumerated power, suggesting flexibility rather than obligation.
The Supreme Court has consistently treated the Postal Clause as permissive authority, not a constitutional requirement.
The Court has held that:
But the Court has never ruled that Congress is constitutionally obligated to maintain a federal postal service.
Cases such as Ex parte Jackson and Kohl v. United States address the scope of postal power, not the duty to exercise it.
Because the Constitution permits but does not require a postal service:
Legal scholars and constitutional commentators consistently note that maintaining USPS is a policy decision, not a constitutional command.
What Congress cannot do is allow states to run competing sovereign postal systems, because postal authority is federal when exercised—but Congress could choose not to exercise that authority at all.
Does the Constitution require a postal service? No
Does it authorize one?Yes
Must it be government‑run?No
Is USPS constitutionally guaranteed to exist?No
The Postal Clause gives Congress permission, not an obligation."
Your AI overlooks custom and traditions, which are an essential component of real conservative ideology.
I take back every kind word I said about Amazon. They just changed my yesterday delivery of copy paper to tomorrow.
My own thoughts is it spreading slowly and getting worse. It started out small to me and as UPS has cut back and closed their Amazon operations it has deteriorated further. I don’t think Amazon is handling the transition well and I think FedEx is overloaded in places. Probably will leak to media in another 4-6 months unless they figure it out.
In West suburban Chicago, Amazon has many of its own delivery vehicles so service is excellent, sometimes even same day on Prime.
Severa times I’ve ordered stuff from Amazon in the morning and it’s been delivered later the same day; once, only 5.5 hours later!
Amazon advertises that 60% of their sales are from independent vendors. I’d blame those vendors, not Amazon itself.
Yes, that is likely the best explanation. The OP’s circumstances might be just that or a regional anomaly.