[LottieDah]

Does cutting back on mail delivery days mean we will get more or less junk mail?

[Richard Kimball]

Junk mail pays for the postal system, so I doubt you'll see less of it. Three day delivery makes sense, cover half the area MWF, the other half on TTS.

Small towns used to not have delivery at all. You had a PO Box and dropped by the post office. Go back to that and do the other and you could save a fortune without impacting service significantly. Here's where it gets tricky, though. That would mean eliminating JOBS. The Feds have no idea how to downsize an organization. It's not in their DNA.

[allmost]

The Postal Service lost $1.1 billion in its latest quarter. That number would be even larger if it weren't for direct mailings, which now constitute 52 percent of mail volume

From a newsweak article http://www.newsweek.com/id/161231.

[redhead]

"Does cutting back on mail delivery days mean we will get more or less junk mail?"

Don't laugh...they will probably raise postal rates again to make sure this goes through. (Who cares if this makes any sense?? When has anything the USPS does made any sense?)