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Postal Service Cutting Saturday Delivery
February 7, 2013
The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays in early August while continuing to deliver packages six days per week. The Postal Service expects to generate cost savings of approximately $2 billion annually, once the plan is fully implemented.
Once implemented during August of 2013, mail delivery to street addresses will occur Monday through Friday. Packages will continue to be delivered six days per week. Mail addressed to PO Boxes will continue to be delivered on Saturdays. Post Offices currently open on Saturdays will remain open on Saturdays.
Market research conducted by the Postal Service and independent research by major news organizations indicate that nearly seven out of ten Americans (70 percent) supported the switch to five-day delivery as a way for the Postal Service to reduce costs in its effort to return the organization to financial stability. Support for this approach will likely be even higher since the Postal Service plans to maintain six-day package delivery.
The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
Pictured: The Walnut Hill contract post office. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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8 Responses to “Postal Service Cutting Saturday Delivery”
good stop sat
The Postal Service has been cutting full time positions for years through attrition and retirements. My father was a postal worker for more than 20 years and has been retired for some years now. Most of your mail carriers are part time flex employees, and they are the first to go when the jobs are no longer needed. When that happens, the remaining employees must do their assigned jobs and see to it that the mail gets delivered. What’s that old saying? “I’ve done so much with so little for so long that I am now qualified to do anything with nothing!” That must be the general feeling about now. However, it’s certainly better than being jobless!
CONCERNING:
“They are doing the best they can so that they don’t have to lay off any people or lose any job positions.”
But that’s the point. If they have less work to do, they don’t need as many workers to do it.
The postal system is not a jobs program. You devalue the people involved when you keep them on the job just because you figure they’d starve otherwise.
Further, you put them in a downward spiral by having higher expenses than necessary, forcing higher rates, forcing people to abandon the service, reducing usage, leading to fewer workers actually needed. It’s still a few years ere Google has robot cars delivering the mail cheaply and reliably. We need the USPS but we need it to be viable and useful — right sized.
And yes, I still appreciate Al Gore creating the Internet and allowing me to cheaply communicate around the world and buy and pay at a lower cost, saving energy and natural resources and keeping me off the dangerous highways more of the time.
David for all good things
Surprisingly, much identity theft comes from “snail” mail. Mail can be taken from the mailbox and many forms of id can be stolen, and from incorrect disposal of mail. This is why all mail that has an address on it should be shredded. This is also why you should never put mail in the box and leave it overnight for early pickup the next day. Never go off and leave the mailbx unattended. Have someone you trust to either pick it up daily, or have the carrier hold the mail until you return. However,one of the greatest sources of identity theft, especially that of children, occurs in the offices of various health care providers.
According to the news sources, if the US postal service wanted to keep delivering mail on Saturdays then the price of a stamp would go up to around $1.08 per stamp. They are doing the best they can so that they don’t have to lay off any people or loss any job positions. They will still be delivering packages just not regular mail. Everyone should say a big Thank you the new digital age. Everyone emails or text and they pay their bills online, no one really uses the postal service anymore. But in truth you are more likely to have your idenity stolen from online then by mail. So who is being smart?!?!
So why don’t they do what businesses do and lay off people and cut costs?
So the price of stamps goes up AGAIN and they are cutting services? I’m confused.
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It’s not that complex. With the rise of technology, their services aren’t needed as widely. They are bleeding money, and there are little revenues coming in. They are doing what they can to not go bankrupt.
So the price of stamps goes up AGAIN and they are cutting services? I’m confused.