We've been telling sellers on Ebay on items we are buying, that we want to UPS/Fedex and they've all been cooperative so far. Heck with the USPS. I won't be using them for a while, that's for sure.
"I honestly think some facilities arent even bothering to sort.... they just toss it in a truck to get it out of their building headed to a distribution facility hoping that facility will handle the work"
I think you have the right idea, TheTank. They just toss it on an outgoing truck to get it out of THEIR facility, and it goes somewhere else, taking up capacity and handling time that could be used used on another package/letter.
We've been having to make electronic payments on bills that we sent checks out in early December; they either receive the check after the due date, or its just vanished. So we end up making double payments, for you know that check will eventually get there and they'll cash it for sure.