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U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery in cost-cutting move

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U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery in cost-cutting move | Dallas-Fort Worth Business News - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News - The Dallas Morning News

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Apparently trying an end-run around an unaccommodating Congress, the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse packages six days a week.In an announcement scheduled for later Wednesday, the service is expected to say the Saturday mail cutback would begin in August and could save $2 billion annually.
The move accentuates one of the agency's strong points - package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010, officials say, while the delivery of letters and other mail has declined with the increasing use of email and other Internet services.
Under the new plan, mail would be delivered to homes and businesses only from Monday through Friday, but would still be delivered to post office boxes on Saturdays. Post offices now open on Saturdays would remain open on Saturdays. ...
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this has been the deal in canada since 1969
don't see it being anything but a positive

now to eliminate subsidizing junk/bulk mail
 
What took them so damn long -they've been talking about it for years. When businesses are slow to change when it's inevitable suffer more in the long run. They should have done it a long time ago.
 
Ever since I switched from DVD delivery to streaming only Netflix I don't even check the mail unless I ordered something from Amazon and the stupid seller is using USPS.

I handle my bills online automatically, in the era of direct deposit and online bill pay I don't understand why anyone who isn't living check to check doesn't. Nobody sends me anything in the mail except for the government, or women with their stupid wedding invitations.

I want the post office to die, we have computers people! First the junk mail must go, I cannot tell you how many times I check my mail only to find a notice that my box was full and I must pick up my "mail" only to find it was full of their crap, not a thing with my name on it.
 
justabubba said:
U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery in cost-cutting move | Dallas-Fort Worth Business News - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News - The Dallas Morning News

effective august:
this has been the deal in canada since 1969
don't see it being anything but a positive

now to eliminate subsidizing junk/bulk mail
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Great move. Now to require every home to have a mailbox at the street. When I go to mom's house, I watch her mailman go up-the-steps-down-the-steps-up-the-steps-down-the-steps through the whole neighborhood of, probably, 2,000 or more homes. Ridiculous. At the very least, a mailbox should be right at the sidewalk. How inefficient can it be?
 
Lachean said:
I want the post office to die, we have computers people! First the junk mail must go, I cannot tell you how many times I check my mail only to find a notice that my box was full and I must pick up my "mail" only to find it was full of their crap, not a thing with my name on it.
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Not everyone has computers and reliable access to the internet. Less you want to subsidize computers and turn the internet into public utility, you cannot end the Post Office.
 
Anyone want to take a stab at why the US Post Service continues to fail?
 
I vote for them to stop delivering all that garbage mail on Tuesdays. If I want Piddle Pool Cleaner Service; Edna's In-Home Kidney Flush; Juan's Yard Service; a two for one special at Li Li's Nail Salon; Poop Scoop Dog Service; Jesus to Save Me, this week; Armando's Auto Windshields; Special Savings at Big Lots on 25 lb boxes of 3/4 inch PVC threaded pipe nipples; or Dick's Hot Dogs ("the Big Dick w/ small drink and regular fries on special until 11 Feb"), I'm pretty sure I can find all those places and more. Stop delivering that crap mail and they could cut out Tuesday deliveries as well.
 
They had already started this down in Tennessee too. My Aunt doesn't get mail on Saturdays. She is in Decatur.
 
We haven't had Saturday delivery of mail here in decades - in fact, I can't remember us ever having it, but we probably did.

I don't know about the US, but the postman here is becoming a glorified deliverer of flyers - it's a straight line from the mail box to the recycle bin for 95% of what comes in the mail.
 
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MaggieD said:
Great move. Now to require every home to have a mailbox at the street. When I go to mom's house, I watch her mailman go up-the-steps-down-the-steps-up-the-steps-down-the-steps through the whole neighborhood of, probably, 2,000 or more homes. Ridiculous. At the very least, a mailbox should be right at the sidewalk. How inefficient can it be?
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In most new housing developments, here in Canada, the houses don't get door-to-door delivery of the mail - the post office sets up a bank of mailboxes on corners and you have to go pick up your mail.
 
Ikari said:
Not everyone has computers and reliable access to the internet. Less you want to subsidize computers and turn the internet into public utility, you cannot end the Post Office.
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I don't accept your conclusion. UPS trucks are all over the place. If they were allowed to compete with the post office, the post office would be out of business in six months. And I wouldn't be getting 95% junk mail at my house.
 
MaggieD said:
I don't accept your conclusion. UPS trucks are all over the place. If they were allowed to compete with the post office, the post office would be out of business in six months. And I wouldn't be getting 95% junk mail at my house.
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The Post Office is not a business. It is public utility which ensures everyone in this country can receive their mail. If you want to get rid of it you must do so through some other guaranteed public utility that everyone can access.
 
Ikari said:
Not everyone has computers and reliable access to the internet. Less you want to subsidize computers and turn the internet into public utility, you cannot end the Post Office.
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Not to mention some seniors the only visitor they ever get to their home is the Mailman.....looks like the paperman will have to keep on keeping on. Carry that Mantle thru rain sleet and snow. 7days a week. Well.....until whatever local newspapers start going with the Internet.
 
They should deliver once a week same as garbage pickup. One employee can do 5 different routes a week instead of the same route 5 times a week.
AND, no bulk mail rates. If all junk mail cost full first class rates, the amount of junk mail would drop 90%....at least.
 
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MaggieD said:
Great move. Now to require every home to have a mailbox at the street. When I go to mom's house, I watch her mailman go up-the-steps-down-the-steps-up-the-steps-down-the-steps through the whole neighborhood of, probably, 2,000 or more homes. Ridiculous. At the very least, a mailbox should be right at the sidewalk. How inefficient can it be?
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In Chicago? Are ya kiddin..... with the way People drive around here. How many Mailboxes would be left standing in some neighborhoods. :lol:
 
Ikari said:
The Post Office is not a business. It is public utility which ensures everyone in this country can receive their mail. If you want to get rid of it you must do so through some other guaranteed public utility that everyone can access.
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Why? Because that's the way we've always done it?? And why couldn't everyone access a UPS system? That's absolutely failed logic. With that philosophy, we'd still be using telegraph.
 
MMC said:
In Chicago? Are ya kiddin..... with the way People drive around here. How many Mailboxes would be left standing in some neighborhoods. :lol:
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Last winter, the snow blow wrecked my mailbox. Yay!! Brand new and installed mailbox!!
 
MaggieD said:
Why? Because that's the way we've always done it?? And why couldn't everyone access a UPS system? That's absolutely failed logic. With that philosophy, we'd still be using telegraph.
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UPS is a private company and may refuse service and does not have to service everyone. Unless you replace it with another public utility that everyone has access to, you must keep it.
 
The subsidize bulk junk mail because it justifies labor levels--by that I mean it shows they are moving a certain volume of mail.

1. Rural delivery costs tons. Requiring a PO box outside of a certain radius would probably reap huge savings.
2. I saw something that was a good idea in California. A lot of their subdivisions have a central spot where all the mail is delivered and residents pick it up. Security is an issue but its certainly mroe efficient.
3. Street boxes at the least. Maggie was right, it wastes tons of time and effort by mailmen.
 
MaggieD said:
Great move. Now to require every home to have a mailbox at the street. When I go to mom's house, I watch her mailman go up-the-steps-down-the-steps-up-the-steps-down-the-steps through the whole neighborhood of, probably, 2,000 or more homes. Ridiculous. At the very least, a mailbox should be right at the sidewalk. How inefficient can it be?
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That might cost you more than it saves when medicare broken hips claims go up. For a lot of old people, making it to the street to pick up their mail might be a perilous task. In my area, they come into and drop off pick up from businesses which is probably the bigger waste---make GM put a big mailbox in front of their HQ instead.
 
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