People who look forward to checking their mail first thing every Saturday may soon be in for a surprise. The Postal Service’s postal governing board appealed to the independent Postal Regulatory Commission in early March to drop Saturday deliveries from their workweeks.
Components of the proposal include limiting mail delivery and collection to Monday through Friday. Other ideas of the proposal include closing certain mail centers and post offices. On the other hand, if the proposal passes, postal offices will remain open on Saturdays, and the express mail delivery will continue seven days a week.
Congress must also agree to the Postal Service’s changes.. However, not everyone is on board with the proposal.
“I would be in favor of a small price increase in postage rather than a cessation in Saturday service,” Potomac resident Steve Hooker says. ” The Postal Service is better off leaving the work schedule alone and just raising postage prices by a few cents to help revenue. People are used to receiving mail on Saturdays, and this would affect bulk mailers who send their heavy packages on weekends very much.”
According to the Postal Service, the plan may save them more than $3 billion annually, which would make up for the $3.8 billion lost last year.
bill • Apr 12, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Great story. Rehash info you got from the Washington Post or AP about an issue that’s been well-known for months and then include one Potomac resident’s opinion to make the story local.
Taylor • Apr 11, 2010 at 11:25 pm
1. There are no deliveries on Sundays. So I’m not sure who anticipates mail then.
2. Steve HOOKER. Seriously? Thanks for the lol.
anonymous • Apr 11, 2010 at 9:39 pm
found an error in first paragraph:
People who look forward to checking their mail first thing every SUNDAY may soon be in for a surprise.
It should be SATURDAY, NOT SUNDAY!
Thanks