The United States Postal Service is under no obligation to deliver your mail

Did you know this? I did not know this. See, I was under the impression that if you were to give a package to the United States Postal Service and were to pay the required postage fee that the United States Postal Service would in fact deliver that package to the address specified. Ha! No no no no nooo.

In actual fact, unless you send your package Priority Class (pay extra), send it Registered (pay extra) with a return receipt (pay extra), and/or insure it (pay extra), the United States Postal Service may or may not deliver that package. If you pay only the basic postage rate, they are not responsible for the delivery of the package. They can lose the package. They can deliver that package damaged. Or they can deliver that package, as was the case with one I recently sent to myself from the Deep Red, with big holes torn in it and with most of the contents missing.

So the basic postage rate is apparently a fee paid to the USPS to take your package with no promise of delivering it. So you are paying some people to take your stuff. A robbing fee, if you will.

In brief, in the exact words of a customer service representative of the United States Postal Service to me, the "United States Postal Service is under no obligation to deliver your mail (Miss)." Huh. I thought that was pretty much the only thing the United States Postal Service was obliged to do. I must have been thrown off by the whole "postal service" thing.