Post office to only deliver 5 days a week?

[scooterbug44]

The Post office is talking about only delivering the mail 5 days a week - not by cutting out one set day, but by choosing the lowest volume day - what a cluster that would be!

Here's my suggestion - obviously due to paperless billing, online payments, e-cards, and email the volume has gone down - but why don't they up the prices on bulk/junk mail instead of on regular mail?

IMO it's a win/win situation - the companies that send me crap mail I don't want pay more, we kill less trees, and we still get crappy delivery service 6 days a week!

And maybe w/ fewer items to deal with, they could then possibly improve the service at our local branches to "third world." :angry:

Postal service considers cutting delivery day - U.S. business- msnbc.com

 

[sunspotbaby]

never have, never will understand the U.S. P.S.

 

[RayStar]

I guess people need to return to using the service more often again. I don't think I would like a cut down on delivery.

 

[Smiling JOe]

If I received more than one fun piece of mail per month, I might like to keep service as it is. HOWEVER, I mostly receive bills in the mail and there is no need to get them six days a week. All typically have a ten day to two week period to pay. If anything is important, I don't send it in the USPS.

I get garbage pick up twice per week, and I usually fill my can about one per two weeks, using only 25% of their service, but I pay for 100%. I'd be just as well if the USPS delivered twice per week, and garbage pick up was once per week.

 

[30ashopper]

I haven't had a need for the USPS in ages. It's time we start phasing it out. Technology is going to force the issue regardless, so these steps by the post master seem to me to make a lot of sense.

 

[traderx]

I haven't had a need for the USPS in ages. It's time we start phasing it out. Technology is going to force the issue regardless, so these steps by the post master seem to me to make a lot of sense.

The USPS handled 200 billion pieces of mail last year. That is a lot of phasing out. Let's privatize it. That should get the leftists' motors running.

Whatcha wanna bet that if the Congress authorizes the postal folks to deliver mail five days only, at the end of the first year, the operating deficit will be greater than it was last year.? Probably due to a mix of factors including failure to distinguish between fixed and variable costs.

 

[Beach Runner]

The Post office is talking about only delivering the mail 5 days a week - not by cutting out one set day, but by choosing the lowest volume day - what a cluster that would be!

Here's my suggestion - obviously due to paperless billing, online payments, e-cards, and email the volume has gone down - but why don't they up the prices on bulk/junk mail instead of on regular mail?

IMO it's a win/win situation - the companies that send me crap mail I don't want pay more, we kill less trees, and we still get crappy delivery service 6 days a week!

And maybe w/ fewer items to deal with, they could then possibly improve the service at our local branches to "third world." :angry:

Postal service considers cutting delivery day - U.S. business- msnbc.com

I hear ya. In our town Saturday service is pretty worthless because I really don't think they deliver anything on Saturday that came in after 1:30 on Friday. Normally our mail isn't delivered to our house until about 3:30. There are five houses after ours (actually there are more, but there are some "privileged" people who get their mail delivered earlier because the mail delivery person jumps to the other side of the road to deliver their mail first thing in the AM -- how unfair is that?-- sorry, I digress. ). After our house and the other five, the mail person high-tails it to the main post office. But on Saturdays the mail delivery person is outta there by 1:30 or so. It's not like "mail" knows it's Saturday.

 

[cheesehead]

Being in Canada in '72-'73, the mail was delivered only Monday -Friday, unless you had a p.o. #. I believe that the U>S> would survive w/o mail on Sat. Just think, no bills. I know, I'm dating myself, but..................

 

[traderx]

Being in Canada in '72-'73, the mail was delivered only Monday -Friday, unless you had a p.o. #. I believe that the U>S> would survive w/o mail on Sat. Just think, no bills. I know, I'm dating myself, but..................

Just because the postal service would deliver mail five days instead of six, mail volume would still be the same. So, the USPS would now have to cram six days of errrr.......mail into five days. Think about the queing theory involved with over the road trucks, regional trucks and delivery vans. That is one reason I bet their costs will go up and create a bigger operating deficit. Government cannot get out of its own way.

 

[kathydwells]

Considering I haven't had any mail in my mailbox for 3 days it wouldn't bother me any. I pay all my bill's online and have stopped all paper delivery of all my bills. I occassionally get store ads, but not much else.