Cutting Costs, U.S. Postal Service to Eliminate Saturday Delivery
The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. Speak out: How will this affect you?
On Wednesday morning the U.S. Postal Service announced that it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 5. Faced with rising costs and falling revenues, officials say that the six-days-per-week mail delivery business model “no longer sustainable.” The plan to change delivery from six days a week to five would only affect first-class mail. Packages, mail-order medicines, priority and express mail would still be delivered on Saturdays. As yet, it's unclear whether the announcement may also portend further cuts at the local level. The Postal Service is in the midst of a large-scale restructuring throughout its retail, delivery and mail processing operations. Over the last seven years, has cut annuals costs by $15 billion, slashed its…
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Dorothy
12:19 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Thanks for posting. The USPS is slashing service to cut costs, and startups like Outbox are stepping to the void. By digitizing consumer mail through a membership service, Outbox spares people the indignity of sorting junk mail, and in an occasion as money scenario, is trying to boost standard of living. This is something the USPS will fight until the end. Resource for this article: https://… more ›