Postal Service: Saturday Mail Delivery to End
The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. Patch wants to know 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. Post offices will remain open Saturdays and package deliveries will occur on Saturdays, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Patch wants to know: How will this change affect you? Will you miss getting mail on Saturdays? Tell us in the comment section below. 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 agency required to pre-fund health benefits for retirees, and those costs are …
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TAKH
8:10 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Five days of delivery is totally sufficient. Though this measure might not have been needed is Congress had not ham strung the PO by mandating that they prefund medical and retirement benefits DECADES in advance. No private company uses such a model, it's ridiculous that the PO has to. more ›