<p>This is not good news. </p>
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<p>[Financial</a> woes may force post office to cut day of delivery weekly | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press](<a href=“http://www.freep.com/article/20090128/NEWS07/90128081/Financial+woes+may+force+post+office+to+cut+day+of+delivery+weekly]Financial”>http://www.freep.com/article/20090128/NEWS07/90128081/Financial+woes+may+force+post+office+to+cut+day+of+delivery+weekly)</p>
<p>Makes perfect sense to me. In addition, the USPS should start installing cluser boxes in older neighborhoods, which could reduce labor costs even more.</p>
<p>Dropping Saturday mail delivery would be fine by me. I see no reason to get bills on the weekend!!! 5 days a week is plenty for me. And I think Tuesday would be a bad day because of all the “no mail” Mondays because of federal holidays. If not Saturday, maybe another day in the week, like Wednesday or Thursday.</p>
<p>I think they should raise the rates since mailing a letter is cheap. They also should raise rates even more on those people who each and every single day send me junk flyers that I just immediately transport to the recycle bin without even looking at it.</p>
<p>I don’t think they should drop delivery during M-F since those are business days and some businesses need mail to be delivered and picked up in a timely manner but they could drop Saturdays pretty easily. It’s surprising they even deliver on Saturday. Why do they anyway?</p>
<p>Obama won’t support this, the N.A.L.C. was one of his biggest contributors. Not to mention, it would put about 100,000 postal jobs in jeopardy. This is inconsistence with his belief in Bigger Government!</p>
<p>I agree…junk mail postage should be raised a LOT.</p>
<p>Didnt Obama say we need smarter govt? Who needs Sat delivery? And btw, where I live the town has to pay to get recycled material taken away – it costs less for the town to dispose of than regular garbage, but still costs something.</p>
<p>I was told that Congress is considering having your ISP charge and collect tax on each email you send. </p>
<p>Seems the idea is to let new technology financially support the snail mail since rural folks and economically disadvantaged tend to use snail mail not email.</p>
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Fortunately if they even tried to go forward with this stupid idea there’d probably be too many technological hurdles to overcome. ISPs don’t necessarily even know or have any reasonable way to know if the client is using email since they could be using web-based email (like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, and many others) being provided by almost anyone in any country or almost anyone could just put up their own mail server.</p>
<p>Tuesday is the lightest day of mail delivery for my Office, even less than what shows up on Saturday.
Makes sense, not much Mail is being posted on Saturday and Sunday - so there isn’t any thing to deliver on Tuesday</p>
<p>UUD–I guess we’ll have to stay tuned.</p>
<p>tensighs:</p>
<p>Not the support you were hoping for? :D</p>
<p>A quote from Tom Hanks (The Terminal): “I hate Tuesdays!”</p>
<p>What if we all worked 4 days a week instead of 5? Of course, the pay would go down 20%, but there will be no need to lay as many people off… Just imagine what you can do with a whole day of freedom :D</p>
<p>Missing Saturday mail doesn’t bother me–I just wish my mail carrier would deliver the mail before 5 PM every day! (It has even been as late as 6 PM and we are not in a rural area!!)</p>
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<p>The rates for Postal employees health care premiums is nearly HALF of what it is for all other federal employees. The Govt is paying ALOT more towards a postman’s insurance than they are for mine. I’ve always wondered why that is. Maybe that discrepancy can be fixed and the ‘savings’ can be used elsewhere. The ‘govt portion’ may not come directly from the Post office budget, but all the money ‘saved’ could be used in alot of ‘elsewhere’ places</p>
<p>for example: my biweekly premium is $99, for a postal employee, the EXACT same plan costs $53. That means the Govt is paying the difference. I would love to know how much could be saved by upping the postal employee contributions to the level of the rest of federal employees</p>
<p>Bunsen, in the town next over to me, instead of laying off firemen, they all agreed to work without pay for one shift. We are not expecting layoffs where I work, but I would gladly agree to that.</p>
<p>They shouldn’t stop delivery on Saturdays because that would mean 2 days in a row of no mail.</p>
<p>I think it’s a lousy idea, anyway. Our postal system has been one of the best things about America, and they want to make it 2nd class? </p>
<p>We can afford to bomb and rebuild Iraq, but we can’t deliver mail anymore. Don’t mean to rant, but that’s my 2 cents.</p>
<p>I agree we could go with more cluster mailboxes for subdivisions. I wouldn’t mind walking a bit to a mailbox, if it meant I still GOT the mail.</p>
<p>As for me personally I do not care if they deliver 5 days a week instead of 6. We sometimes don’t even remember to collect the mail from the box by the street and nobody wants to walk the distance at 10 P.M. (when we finally do remember) :)</p>
<p>Wanted to make a comment though - nothing drives me as mad when I am in a hurry than the slow movement of the postal employees at our station. And never ending conversations when they see a neighbor …</p>