>With various choke points in the routing of the mail
This sentence speaks to the state of the USPS today. It's been mentioned here before, but packages are just sitting without any movement whatsoever. I have some that haven't moved at all since 12/9.
It's like the USPS is intentionally adding to holiday covid stress, becoming the Grinch that stole Christmas. There are no bottlenecks with UPS and Fedex. For the past week, some UPS guy in his own Suburu Wagon has been delivering my packages.