Saturday Mail Delivery to End, Postal Service Announces
The U.S. Postal Service will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. How will this affect you?
Calling the six-days-per-week mail delivery business 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 Saturdays and certain items—medicine deliveries and priority and express mail—will be delivered; first-class mail will not. According to the U.S. Postal Service, continued economic struggles and the increasing use of the Internet for communications and bill paying by consumers led to the decision. The U.S. 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 days a week is no longer …
Jeremiah Wright
1:43 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
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