Saturday Mail Delivery Will End, U.S. Postal Service Announces
The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. Speak out: How will this affect you?
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Saturday Mail Delivery Will End, U.S. Postal Service Announces
The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. Speak out: How will this affect you?
Calling the six-days-per-week mail delivery business model “no longer sustainable,” the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday morning announced it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1. Speak out: How will this change affect you? Will you miss getting mail on Saturdays? The plan to change delivery from six days a week to five would only affect first-class mail. Packages, mail-order medicines, priority and express mail would still be delivered on Saturdays, and local post offices will remain open for business Saturdays. According to the U.S. Postal Service, the reasons are continued economic struggles and the increasing use of the Internet for communications and bill paying by consumers. The U.S. Postal Service is also the only federal…
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Hairy Callahan
7:32 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Time to upgrade the technology for mail sorting and delivery to downsize the entire USPS by 50% over the next 10-15 years. Maybe a system where we bar code are own mail from home before we drop it in the mailbox. A system where the hands on sorting is eliminated completely. As far as the pensions- pay them. Postal workers deserve every penny. more ›