Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
The USPS is a government organization. That pretty much sums up why it’s a disaster.
Nothing important or time sensitive should go through the Post Office. FedEx or UPS provide a much better service. If you’re shipping a package and it’s replaceable then Priority Mail is a good option as long as it’s insured appropriately. I’ve filed a claim on lost/damaged Priority Mail and gotten reimbursed.
Just walk into a Post Office and the causes become obvious
Here in downtown Chicago, in Streeterville, it now takes upwards THREE WEEKS for a scheduled monthly-issued letter-sized business envelope (not junk mail) to travel one mile, business to business, postmarked and delivered to USPS box at 1ST BUSINESS DAY OF MONTH, now often not being delivered to recipient business until LAST WEEK OF MONTH. That delay in delivery, to me, is ridiculous, and yet another example of a city that no longer functions at even bare-minimum. Now consider that Chicago’s traffic-speed camera-generated ticket-vendor is issuing tickets where fines significantly increase if not paid within 2 or 3 weeks of issuance.… Read more »
Her first mistake was sending it certified, yes that system is f’ed up. I send everything regular mail then follow up with the recipient, nothing gets lost.