Aside from this article and similar, I can't find any credible confirmation that Amazon packages are delivered "fourth-class" or what that means. After all, big bulky boxes are hardly competing against catalogs for space in the mail truck, the differences in size are so huge.
Amazon has a private contract with the USPS that presumably puts it in its own unique category regardless of other labels, and the USPS likely loses money for late delivery, so this is just things operating how they're intended to operate.
The real problem is politics that doesn't give the USPS the flexibility to expand. I live in Brooklyn and haven't gotten a single package delivered on time by the USPS in the past 3 months, always 1-3 days late.
Any normal business hires more employees as business booms, and remember the USPS makes money off Amazon. Unfortunately, the USPS is so hamstrung by politicians that it can't simply expand to meet demand, the way e.g. Amazon Fresh has.
Amazon has a private contract with the USPS that presumably puts it in its own unique category regardless of other labels, and the USPS likely loses money for late delivery, so this is just things operating how they're intended to operate.
The real problem is politics that doesn't give the USPS the flexibility to expand. I live in Brooklyn and haven't gotten a single package delivered on time by the USPS in the past 3 months, always 1-3 days late.
Any normal business hires more employees as business booms, and remember the USPS makes money off Amazon. Unfortunately, the USPS is so hamstrung by politicians that it can't simply expand to meet demand, the way e.g. Amazon Fresh has.