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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Postal Service To Keep Saturday Mail Delivery

United States Postal Service reversed its decision to end standard mail delivery on Saturdays.

  The United States Postal Service has backed off a plan to stop Saturday mail delivery, citing lack of cooperation from Congress, ABC News reports.  The USPS Board of Governors said restrictive language prevents it from going ahead with the plan to eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1, according to a USPS statement. "The Board continues to support the transition to a new national delivery schedule. Such a transition will generate approximately $2 billion in annual cost savings and is a necessary part of a larger five-year business plan to restore the Postal Service to long-term financial stability," according to the USPS statement.  In February, USPS said its current business model of delivery mail six days a week is no longer …

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Willie Wilmette

1:13 pm on Friday, April 12, 2013

I use FedEx when it is cheaper. Usually when sent to a business or 3 pounds or more.   more ›

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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 ›

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