News - Postmaster General: Mail days may need to be cut

spoon

As if USPS isn't annoying enough already:


Postmaster General: Mail days may need to be cut

Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. If the change happens, that doesn't necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail delivery. Previous post office studies have looked at the possibility of skipping some other day when mail flow is light, such as Tuesday. ... [ continued at link]

Another article on the subject:
Postal Service seeks end to Saturday delivery requirement


And rates are expected to go up by the maximum allowed by law this year (likely by May)...

ASUtodd

Everything goes up eventually, in a capitalistic free trade society...... look at it this way, at least it didn't keep pace with gas prices!

DBSTrader2

A LOT OF COMPANIES' BILLING SYSTEMS HAVE TO CALCULATE DAYS UNTIL BILLS ARE DUE BASED ON "BUSINESS DAYS".

If the Post Office chooses to stop delivery on a Tuesday, that might mean added expense to those business to re-calculate bill days, Late payment Charges, and other calculations.

For that reason alone, I would think businesses would chime in to have the Post Office elect not to deliver on Saturdays, which are already not treated as a "business" day. Plus, would give carriers a weekend off like many other people................

woodardcoin

<< <i>A LOT OF COMPANIES' BILLING SYSTEMS HAVE TO CALCULATE DAYS UNTIL BILLS ARE DUE BASED ON "BUSINESS DAYS".

If the Post Office chooses to stop delivery on a Tuesday, that might mean added expense to those business to re-calculate bill days, Late payment Charges, and other calculations.

For that reason alone, I would think businesses would chime in to have the Post Office elect not to deliver on Saturdays, which are already not treated as a "business" day. Plus, would give carriers a weekend off like many other people................ >>



Damn goo point.

Sapyx

Wait, wait, wait... Let me get this straight. You people in America get mail delivered to your house on a Saturday?

I don't think that happens anywhere else. Around here, Saturday mail delivery only happens on the two weekends before Christmas.

And they call Australia the "lucky country".

Hyperion

where else can you have a valuable service performed for 40-odd cents !?!!?
you can't even get a gumball out of a machine at the mall for that much anymore
(ok.. not the GOOD ones anyway!)

ASUtodd

For what the Post Office does their prices aren't what they should be, again...be thankful the prices of mailing something didn't keep up with the price of gas.

ormandh

This is why the USPS should be in the private sector.

SaorAlba

It really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have Saturday hours, except at the PO itself when you want to mail stuff. I could really careless about Saturday delivery.

Bailathacl

It may make NetFlix less attractive and on-demand cable movies mor popular....

My mail carrier doesn't seem to work on Saturdays anyway, I won't notice.