[PAR35]

Cutting routine Saturday delivery would be a start.

[warsaw44]

Shipping has become so expensive at this point.

International shipping costs are a joke. It wasn’t too many years ago that a very large portion of my business was overseas buyers. That’s pretty much gone now.

I once sold hundreds of used books a month and used surface mail ( big container ships ) for overseas buyers.

That’s gone and so are those sales. Shipping a book overseas is very expensive.

Keep raising rates, USPS, soon I’ll be out of business.

[Kaslin]

Do you realize how late the mail would be delivered on Monday which is usually late anyway because they have to catch up on the mail that comes in.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Cutting routine Saturday delivery would be a start.

I know people in the bulk mail sorting business. 90% of their customers want their flyers and assorted crap to arrive in your mailbox on Saturday (on the theory that you'll actually be home and will pick it up). My contacts told me that if Saturday delivery went away they'd likely lose 40% of their bulk mail business. Such a move might even force them out of the sorting business altogether.

And the Postal Service is highly dependent on revenue from bulk mail, so it's a Catch 22 for them.

[Vigilanteman]

I'd go a step further in the name of "compromise". Encourage letter carriers to go part time and divide all delivery routes into two tracks.

Track 1 gets delivery on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Track 2 gets delivery on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

The worst thing that happens is that you get half your mail a day later. If you don't like that, rent a P.O. Box and pick it up yourself every day.