The United States Post Office has reported record losses for the past 3 years+. No surprise there, due to the internet and emails, very few people have need to send letters and documents through the traditional mail service.
In an effort to keep the post office running and save money they have proposed to Congress the 5 day delivery system. All they are waiting for now is the Congress to pass an act that would STOP them from doing this. So by Congress doing nothing, this will probably come to pass no later than September 30, 2011.
The post office has information all over the website about this currently and the status of where the plan is. You can review it yourself at usps.com.
The post office branches would still be open Saturdays, P.O. boxes still get deliveries on Saturdays, but residential and business street addresses would get no deliveries. They estimate this will save them 3 billion dollars a year.
Personally, I'm fine with no mail on Saturday. It means I will probably get more mail on Friday or Monday and that's not a big deal. The only thing I do use the post office for is sending packages, buying products from some sellers on Ebay that use the post office, and receiving bills, oh and the ever present junk mail I can't get rid of.
I'm not sure why the post office doesn't shut down their branches on Saturday's as well. I don't see why they think they need to keep these open and spend more taxpayer dollars on heating/cooling, employees, etc.
Anyway, what do you think? Is this going to bother you? Would you even notice? Are you mad or hope that we continue to get 6 days of service?
Please let me know.
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