Postal Letter

Would you support the United States Postal Services decision to eliminate Saturday delivery to save money?

WASHINGTON — Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. If the change happens, that doesn't necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail delivery. Previous post office studies have looked at the possibility of skipping some other day when mail flow is light, such as Tuesday. Faced with dwindling mail volume and rising costs, the post office was $2.8 billion in the red last year. "If current trends continue, we could experience a net loss of $6 billion or more this fiscal year," Postmaster General John E. Potter said in testimony for a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee. Chuck G: That is so true. I rarely if ever go to the post office but when I do you will ALWAYS see up to three people standing around talking and one person working. If the above three are on break, why are they out front?

Public Comments

1. Yes.
2. Sure.
3. i would prefer to eliminate tuesday services as they are also talking. sadly not enough people use the postal system as once before. with on line bill paying and emailing instead of mailing letters -- it's becoming obsolete.
4. Yes
5. no way, that's when I usually get most of my mail and am able to get things shipped out.
6. Yes, overnight mail will still be delivered for urgent matters. I live way out in the country and Fed Ex and UPS don't deliver here on Sat. So I would not mind much if USPS doesn't either.
7. I really dont care, for some reaosn the morons cant get my mail to me to begin with. My mail forwarding request is confirmed but I am still not getting my mail after a month and a half - i wonder where all that mail is going
8. If they do that I wont even use the post office to send my bills anymore, that would really tick me off.
9. One less day a week to receive bills - what's the downside?
10. Yes I would. And cancel Wednesday also and pay them for the 4 days a week they would work.
11. I don't see any harm in that.
12. I'd rather see them get rid of their dead weight first. You can go in to any post office, see five people, four are standing around, one is working the counter.
13. Nope! Make it a weekday.
14. yes they can do 2 days
15. Of course I would. I think we should. Times are tough right now!
16. Yes, I would.
17. No I wouldn't. Skipping a day could cause a good bit of trouble. It wouldn't just be bills that would be delayed a day on your end but on the end of companies also. I know people would raise hell if their payments didn't arrive in time due to one less day of delivery and they were given a late payment charge. Some also receive their paychecks in the mail. I'd be one of those people and there isn't an option to get it any other way. So a delay in service could mean a delay in getting my pay. For some that could be an extremely big deal. But I hardly ever agree with the postal service. They have dwindling volume because of the rising costs. Instead of increasing the costs so frequently they should drop the costs. More people would be inclined to use their services and their profits would rise. The more they raise the prices the lower the volume will go. They should also stop "lending" out the corrugated containers. The vast majority of them do not get returned and that is a lot of lost money.
18. Sure. I don't need to look at my gas bill on Saturday.
19. No, most people are only able to get to the post office on the weekends. What they should do is encourage stamp collecting. People pay face value for the stamps, and never use them! It saves the post office work and money while still making money. Plus, a 42 cent stamp takes, what 1/2 of a cent to make?
20. why can't they ask for a bail out money everybody else is doing it , I get some of my mail late now , it should only take a day or two to get local mail but if you look at the day it was processed and the day you get it it's late , or you get these ads where the sale ended 2 days before you get the ad in the mail , so things will only get worse
21. I would go even further, and totally shut down the USPS. And then encourage private industry to take up the slack, and find a way to make a profit... I wish no disrespect to Portal Workers, but it's not a profitably run organization, or an efficiently run organization...because it's a government organization... So let private sector do what it's great at, and public do what it's great at..
22. Yes.
23. The PO didn't say Saturday, but Tuesday. I would have no problem with that, but I think businesses would have a few problems.
24. Of course
25. They could close all together for all I care. They keep increasing their prices but their service never improves. And I sometimes think that being rude must be a prerequisite for working for the USPS
26. Yes. I will anything to help the economy but I heard they were thinking about taking Tuesday off. They said it was their slowest day. @~
27. Yes. Anything to help the economy. I am for it. I think we will all need to find some ways to sacrifice. ><
28. Yes. Anything to get us out of this messed. %