Comic Strip of the Week: Santa's late Mail

The above cartoon by Rick McKee is obviously meant solely to show disapproval towards the postal service's cuts. As a personal note anybody that actually knows anything about the postal service knows that these cuts are long overdue. If they didn't make them then pretty soon the corporation would collapse and probably send the United States into a Depression or a deeper Recession.
The major objects include Santa, the U.S. Postal Service Mail man and his bag of letters. By using the Mailman to express his regret at the tardiness of the mail's arrival way after Santa needed the letters (in fact when Santa is delivering toys) the cartoonist shows us that the postal service is just a big disappointment that revealed itself as such a disappointment right in time for Christmas. This begs us to wonder what Santa put in his sack, a bunch of random toys?
Additionally the elf in the lower right is blushing to show his embarrassment at the Post's tardiness.
The Cartoonist obviously doesn't agree with the majority of Americans who say that they don't mind a single extra day late (not the month or so late as depicted in the cartoon. Thus, he used hyperbole to express his discontent.