It now, in Texas anyway, takes longer for a letter to go from my mailbox here in Copperas Cove, Coryell County to a business across the county line (3 miles away) and in Killeen Tx (9 miles from my house), than it does for the same letter to go from my house to Little Rock Arkansas.
I would absolutely love for the United States Post Office to go belly for good. Nothing good ever comes in the mail nowadays, my box stays full of either junk mail or mail addressed to someone else and/or a different address.
I have been at this address now for over 2 1/2 years, I am still getting mail from a previous resident, and I have not once, put anything outgoing in my box (I use a drop box near the PO if I want to mail something).