Postal Service to Cut Saturday Delivery

"The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion (per year)."

Ref: CBS 3 Springfield

What a drag, junk mail only five days a week instead of six. I'm heartbroken.

This is something they should of done a long time ago to cut cost's instead of constantly upping the price of a stamp by a penny or two. I don't how much we've overpaid on mailing stuff because 1) have no idea the denom on all the stamps we have because they quit PUTTING A DENOM number on the damn things and 2)just how much is it to mail a letter nowadays. I dunno, lemme stick one of these, a coupla those and one more of these cool looking ones to make sure. Does anybody really mail enough letters to actually keep track of all this now?

J

I rarely mail letters, etc. Every bill I pay is via online banking. And between the telephone and email, and thanks to a printer/ scanner, there is rarely a need to mail a letter or document.

Last time I mailed a letter, (September for my sister's birthday), I could not find my stamps so I used an Easter Seal or X-mas seal. Had a big sheet of them., and picked one that looked 'about right".

The letter went through. ::: shrug :::

I think it sucks. As a business (and secretary for 2 organizations) I mail alot. I also look forward to getting all the gambling offers...a day without 5 or 6 pieces of mail in our home box is unusual.

I personally do not open newsletters (or magazines, god forbid) on emails, if they can't mail it to me I don't read it.

No deliveries, yet the employees will work slow enough to collect overtime.

That makes as much sense as Ford saying we won't make red cars on Tuesdays to cut costs.

So what does all this mean ???????

I guess we will be getting twice as much junk mail every Monday


Rick

IMHO, not a big deal...

In an effort to break the postal union, our legislators mandated that the USPS fully fund their pension for the next 72 years. Yes, fully fund the retirement of workers who aren't even born yet. They gave them ten years to fully fund the pension. Most businesses who pay into a pension fund do it to be fully funded for a few years at a time. So a huge part of the USPS's problem is getting that fund intact. There are of course some other problems. Also, as per the article, the USPS needs congressional approval for changes in their operation. So they need to ask an organization trying to destroy them to approve measures meant to save them. The USPS has seen this problem coming for awhile and have been stymied when trying to take proactive measures. It's not until they're running in the red that they're granted the permission to fix problems they've identified years ago.

It's a great organization and is unfairly maligned due to people's perception about government and unions. Luckily, the elderly and the rural, people who generally don't like government and unions, are the ones who will be hurt the most by this. Have fun getting your mail order prescriptions on Monday instead of Saturday. You asked for it, now you're getting it unlubed

"Luckily." Yeah, right. I'm just SO happy those damn union-busting elderly will be hurt by this. And don't even get me started on "the rural".

I have 4 post offices within 3 miles of my home.

My friend when he started working in the post office went out on his first delivery and finished it in 3 hours (even though he didn't know the area). When he came back to the office they told him he was working to fast and told him to leave and come back later.

I believe that when an office does close or routes are eliminated the affected workers are sent elsewhere. If there is work for them to do they are assigned, otherwise they sit around all day.

The reality is the postal delivery is a dying business. Volume is way down & will continue to drop. The PO has to deal with this reality.