Post office moves towards eliminating weekend delivery

[Liberal_in_LA]

Post office wants to go to five-day-a-week delivery schedule
March 2, 2010 | 8:50 am
Facing declining revenue and business, the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday announced a plan that could end mail deliveries on weekends as the agency moves to a five-day delivery schedule.


“Our proposal, you’ve heard it over the last year, is that we move from six-day delivery to five-day delivery,” Postmaster General John E. Potter said in televised remarks.


Citing rising fuel and labor costs along with a drop in business, Potter said “the Postal Service is facing a severe income gap that we absolutely have to close.”


The lost business is due to the growth of electronic communication such as e-mail and electronically distributed bills. The Postal Service also faces continually growing competition from private package haulers such as FedEx.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/2010/03/post-office-wants-to-go-to-fiveday-a-week-delivery-schedule.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Which will cause more bill payments to arrive late in the mail

Just watch

[Donnachaidh]

3. and will cause more problems gettin SS checks in the mail as well

The post office should look to working on it's OWN internal problems and fixing those before they throw up their hands ad stop Saturday deliveries.

they can start by asking the upper management to take a 10 per cent CUT in salaries and benefits across the board. THAT would be more effective than cutting services.

[elocs]

4. I don't receive or send any payments by mail. That is probably the problem.

The PO has to do what is has to do though.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. If it's absolutely unavoidable

I'd rather see the end of weekend delivery than stopping delivery altogether to remote locations and tiny towns & hamlets. I can live without Saturday delivery, but some people would become 'stranded' if delivery to these far-flung places came to an end.