How many of us are experiencing delays and sometimes complete failures with the USPS? I have a friend whose CC payment, last time I talked to her, was out 41 days from the time it was mailed, and still wasn't posted to her acct yet. We had a payment that took 9 days to go from our mailbox in SE IA too Hermann MO.....230 miles. The irony in that is that when the Pony Express was activated, they delivered mail from St Joe MO to Sacramento CA in 10 days......1667 miles. And they call this progress?? And so now, they're raising the price once more for 1st class stamps.  When do we reach critical mass... Post Office increases costs, but customers use some other method besides snail mail to pay bills, and so again prices raise, and more use another payment method?