Post Office to Keep Saturday Mail Delivery
USPS drops plans to halt Saturday mail delivery service.
Saturday mail delivery will continue — The United States Postal Service board of governors stated Wednesday that they will delay plans to cease mail delivery on the weekend. Congress has prohibited implementation of a new national delivery schedule for mail and packages, according to a statement released by the board. In February, the Postal Service announced that it would end regular mail delivery on Saturdays beginning early August. The move came as a cost-cutting measure, as the USPS hoped to save $2 billion annually by cutting Saturday delivery service. According to reports, the USPS lost almost $16 billion last year. In July 2011, the Postal Service announced the closure of 3,600 post offices across the country in an effort to save …
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PrincetonIQ
4:51 pm on Thursday, April 11, 2013
Unfortunately, the USPS is dying and quickly. It needs major reform and can't pay its bills. Email and fax have transformed the "today" delivery of routine communications, including letters between friends and the billions of monthly statements and invoices that formerly were delivered by USPS with a quick check in an envelope that generated another piece of mail. Sitting by and hoping for the … more ›