Late-Night Messaging From USPS

My last post on the USPS in North College Park led one disbelieving Patch reader to ask if I had raised the issue with management. Management is the problem.

Last night the carrier deposited my neighbor's mail in my box and I had to run her down some 200 yards away to get the problem corrected. She came back to the neighbor on the other side of me because she had been off by one address systematically for over about a block. 

So why isn't it the carrier's fault?

Because she couldn't see what she was doing. She was delivering the mail at 6:30 p.m., and this is routine in Hollywood.  For reasons never explained to anyone who lives there, the USPS can't keep enough carriers on the job during daylight hours to ensure delivery before the sun goes down. It is becoming rare to find the mail waiting for me when I come home before 5:30. 

By the way, when I see carriers, they're moving fast. 

The USPS managers know that they're paying people overtime for the work that didn't get done during business hours.  As for why they do their business this way, quien sabe, amigo?