The Postal Service is planning to stop Saturday delivery, in order to trim costs. The cash-strapped mail agency plans to cut the delivery day to save about $2 billion.
The change is expected to take effect in August.
USPS would still deliver to P.O. boxes on Saturday.
Stop it all. Who gets snail mail anyway??
how about cutting the fat pensions instead ??????????????????????
That’s a bunch of garbage..
USPS just raised their rates last week:
http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2012/pr12_114.htm
I thought that was to cut costs? How much “cost” are they going to keep cutting? This “cost cutting” will never end.
If they had any competition at all (for First Class Packages / envelopes) they wouldn’t get away with this and survive. It’s unfortunate that they can do whatever they want due to their monopoly.
I already use Fedex/UPS exclusively for anything that is not “first class mail”.
thats crazy!!!! 2 consecutive days without mail is a little crazy
fold the usps it is a giant hole that we keep throwing money into…
Snail mail should be only one day a week for those that still rely on it like one cash lane for non ezpass users 99% is junk mail anyway it should be placed in the spam box ie big yellow bin
Great idea. Most of my mail is junk mail anyway. Almost everything is electronic nowadays. THey should revamp the whold system if it wants to stay up to date. The post offices are from the last century. Can’t go into the details here, but they are really behind the times. Keep up with the times and maybe you’ll make some money!
oh no!!! how can I get my husband home home for havdalh without mail waiting for him.
rarely ever mail anything ,so no big deal. USPS is going bankrupt they need to modernize and offer newer services need some young blood to think outside the “BOX”
I hope they go bankrupt. This is just proof the Government has no clue how to run a business…..
If UPS or Fedex bought it out, they would be making a profit in less than a year.
This is great news.. This will stop many chillul shabbos issues including reading mail received on shabbos and the drive being jewis and so on. Also, I hate reading mail on motzei shabbos and getting a bill its shouldnt be the first news of the week 🙂
the end of an era!
how will we find out the scores on shabbos? yanks, mets, etc.
btw they are still the best priced on packages. UPS has gotten crazy expensive. so dont knock my post office
More and more people want to keep shabbos nu nu, at least I won’t have to worry about parking in front of a maila box b4 shabbos and getting nast letters on my windsheild (u know who u are mr. Noteleaver)
I am ECSTATIC about this. 5 days of bills is more than enough.
🙂
To #13, park legally and then maybe you wont get nasty notes on your windshield.