My guess is, the USPS wants more money and a rate increase, which means the best way to blackmail us into believing there's some major issue, is to slow down everything and make a statement. Then when they get what they want, everything will suddenly be fixed.

Everything works better when you just throw more money at it?

We really do have a good system and normally it does work better than many others, but this is ridiculous. Covid is the cause? Did Trump do something that Biden will now "solve"? Somewhere behind this, the politicians and union are celebrating their success and future victory.