Postal Service Will End Saturday Mail Delivery
The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday delivery by Aug. 1. How will this affect you?
Calling the six-day-a-week mail delivery model “no longer sustainable,” the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday morning announced it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1. Post offices will remain open and package deliveries still will occur on Saturdays, however. How will this change affect you? Will you miss getting mail on Saturdays? Tell us in the comment section below. According to the U.S. Postal Service, the reasons are continued economic struggles and the increasing use of the Internet for communications and bill paying by consumers. The Postal Service is also the only federal agency required to pre-fund health benefits for retirees, and those costs are escalating quickly. “Our current business model of delivering mail six …
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jolana
10:51 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Why aren't all government agencies required to prefund health benefits? Oh wait - like everything else - the government just pushes it off to another time and "kicks it down the road" more ›