Why my mail is so slow

Apparently the Royal Mail is in the pink again. Which explains why my local post office is still closed, my mail never comes before midday and it takes two weeks to send anything 'airmail' to America.

Royal Mail's operating profits were £355m, with all of its businesses improving their financial performance.

Note that 'financial performance'. Not actual, you know, letter-delivering performance. Apparently they're also getting £1.7 billion from the gov't--that's the government who can't afford to pay nurses properly--to help them out. No, I don't understand it, either.