The U.S. Postal Service announced it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays starting in August 2013 in an attempt to save $2 billion annually. Package and express mail delivery will still occur six days a week, but regular mail will no longer be delivered to homes and businesses on Saturdays. This change is a response to declining letter volumes and rising costs as people increasingly use electronic communication instead of mailed letters. It also aims to reduce costs associated with funding retirement health benefits for employees. While controversial, the Postal Service says the move reflects the growth in package delivery versus letters given changing customer mailing habits in recent years.

1. February 16th, 2013 Published by: LRHand
U.S. Postal Service To Cut
Saturday Mail Delivery
Service announced it’s not going to deliver
U.S. Postal Service first-class mail on Saturdays anymore.
Cuts Mail Delivery on
Saturday | L.R. Hand's Starting in August, the postman will no
Empower Network longer be stopping by on Saturdays at
residences and businesses, though mail
Blog will still be delivered to post-office boxes.
Saturday package delivery will also continue
as well as mail-order medicine and express
mail.
Most Saw The U.S. Postal
Service Going This Way
This action also highlights one of the 237-
year-old agency’s main points – that package
U.S. Postal Service deliveries have risen 8.7 percent in the 2012
fiscal year, but the delivery of letters has
ceases delivery on declined with the increasing use of email,
Saturday social media and other internet use.
The U.S. Postal Service is advancing
In an attempt to save $2 Billion dollars
an important new approach to
annually, the financially struggling U.S.
delivery that reflects the strong
Postal
growth of our package business and
responds to the financial realities
resulting from America’s changing
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2. February 16th, 2013 Published by: LRHand
mailing habits, said Patrick R. Wouldn’t it be great to not
Donahoe, Postmaster General and
CEO at a news conference to
have to worry about the
announce the changes. government not having your
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The move is also meant to counter
the increasing costs of funding future
resonates with you and your
retiree health benefits to its workers, as financial future.
mandated by Congress, which oversees the
independent agency.
Can’t The U.S. Postal Service
Raise Money?
The U.S. Postal Service faces other
limitations. For instance, it is prohibited
from setting up retail outlets, for example,
that could generate huge profits to help
offset delivery costs. Even more damaging, it
is barred by Congress from charging the full
cost of providing the service it is required
to deliver….pretty damn stupid.
Congress may soon be more open to approve
reduced service for first-class mail from six
days to five days a week as it seeks to reduce
spending. It should be noted that the U.S.
Postal Service does not receive tax money to
facilitate its day-to-day operations.
It is said neither snow, rain, heat nor
“gloom of night” can keep the U.S. Postal
Service from completing its “appointed
rounds” – but I guess they never said
anything about weekends…
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