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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Monday, January 14, 2013
U.S. Postal Service Boosts Price of Stamps
U.S. Postal Service rate hikes will go into effect Jan. 27.
Written by Ann C. Piasecki The cost to mail a letter is set to rise slightly later this month, after rate changes go into effect Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Get news in your inbox. Sign up for the Patch newsletter. Like Bolingbrook Patch on Facebook. Stamp prices will increase one cent, from 45 cents to 46 cents, to mail one-ounce letters. This brings the cost of a standard 20-stamp book up from $9 to $9.20. Forever stamps, purchased for 45 cents before the price hike, are always good for mailing a one-ounce letter anytime in the future regardless of price changes, according to the U.S. Postal Service. The cost for letters weighing more than one ounce will stay the same, at 20 cents for each additional ounce, …
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just saying
12:22 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
How stupid is this?.... What other company who is loosing money because people are not using their services any more would say... "I know how to get our customers back... lets raise our prices". In the age of online bill pay, email and all other forms of electronic communications why would someone, except for those with little or no technology knowledge, use the post office unless absolutely … more ›
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 ›