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Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery in bid to cut costs
FOXNEWS ^ | AP via FOX

Posted on 02/06/2013 5:10:29 AM PST by Doogle

The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion, the financially struggling agency says.

In an announcement scheduled for later Wednesday, the service is expected to say the Saturday mail cutback would begin in August.

The move accentuates one of the agency's strong points -- package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010, officials say, while the delivery of letters and other mail has declined with the increasing use of email and other Internet use.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: postal; usps
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To: Doogle

Who will sign for registered mail if the recipient is working Mon - Fri? Unless the USPS treats them as packages instead of regular mail. Just a question.


21 posted on 02/06/2013 5:42:08 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dims are stupid, Period, end of conversation.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Let me put it this way ~ it’s far more complex than that. Carrier time on the street is about 75% of carrier costs. Cutting street time in half doesn’t cut total carrier costs in half.


22 posted on 02/06/2013 5:43:17 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: DuncanWaring

half of all addresses get Monday-Wednesday-Friday delivery, the other half gets Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday delivery.

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I’ve agreed with that approach for a long time for residential delivery. However some commercial may need 6 day service but that wouldn’t be a large percent of them.


23 posted on 02/06/2013 5:43:49 AM PST by deport
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To: EQAndyBuzz

They have not stopped paying for employees that stopped working 10 years ago.


24 posted on 02/06/2013 5:44:48 AM PST by edcoil (Manage your own lawsuit: www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=KK0012)
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To: txrefugee

Why? If you get paid for 5 days of work and the company shuts down for 2 days a week, why would they cut your pay?


25 posted on 02/06/2013 5:44:48 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: vetvetdoug
minority employment today is about 25% of the work force and it was about 25% of the work force 50 years ago.

I think it's due to the feminization of the work force

26 posted on 02/06/2013 5:46:57 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: sassy steel magnolia
Best pay? Your typical NIH guy makes possibly 5 Times as much as the average postal worker.

You can look up federal pay and postal pay on the internet and compare them.

27 posted on 02/06/2013 5:49:10 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Doogle

I once lived where we had the mail delivered twice a week. If you expected something important, you drove to the post office in the town of less than 90 and asked if it came. I never felt shorted.


28 posted on 02/06/2013 5:49:22 AM PST by eartrumpet
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To: Doogle

Probably will end up costing more


29 posted on 02/06/2013 5:54:30 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Who will sign for registered mail if the recipient is working Mon - Fri?

Same way it works now. They leave a note in your mailbox that you have registered mail and you go to the Post Office to get it. If you go read the article, it states that POs will continue to be open on Saturday.

30 posted on 02/06/2013 5:57:02 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: GeronL

no doubt......


31 posted on 02/06/2013 5:57:47 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: eartrumpet
If you expected something important, you drove to the post office in the town of less than 90 and asked if it came. I never felt shorted. You might if it was an 80 mile round trip.
32 posted on 02/06/2013 5:58:15 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Arrowhead1952
Who will sign for registered mail if the recipient is working Mon - Fri?

You will, when you drive to the post office to pick it up. They'll leave you a little green post card alerting you to the fact that you have mail at the p.o. Just like they currently do.

33 posted on 02/06/2013 5:59:26 AM PST by pgkdan ( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Who will sign for registered mail if the recipient is working Mon - Fri?

You will, when you drive to the post office to pick it up. They'll leave you a little green post card alerting you to the fact that you have mail at the p.o. Just like they currently do.

34 posted on 02/06/2013 5:59:26 AM PST by pgkdan ( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Arrowhead1952

most likely you’ll probably see it later in the day...or make arrangements with alternative drop off.


35 posted on 02/06/2013 6:00:01 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle
Two more grafs from the article:Frigging unions. Although management knew very well what they were getting into.
36 posted on 02/06/2013 6:00:53 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Doogle

Most people won’t even notice. I have one elderly aunt with whom I maintain a written correspondence. In addition to that my wife and I send and receive birthday cards and Christmas cards. The rest of the mail is bills (5%) and garbage (95%).


37 posted on 02/06/2013 6:02:13 AM PST by pgkdan ( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Doogle

I’d be happy to have dependable week day delivery.


38 posted on 02/06/2013 6:02:45 AM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: muawiyah

“minority employment today is about 25% of the work force”

Maybe in Kansas, no way, no how in every post office I have been to in Califoirnia.


39 posted on 02/06/2013 6:02:45 AM PST by DAC21
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To: Doogle
Contract it out to FedEx, it'll run twice as efficiently for half as much.

My .02

CC

40 posted on 02/06/2013 6:06:00 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Come to Michigan, enjoy the beauty of all 4 seasons- sometimes all in the same day)
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