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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Postal Service Reverses Suspension of Saturday Delivery Plan

Citing Congressional measure, Board of Governors reluctantly decides to continue six-day-a-week delivery.

The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service reversed course recently and will no longer move ahead with plans to suspend Saturday mail delivery in August to save money, according to a statement from the board. On Feb. 6, the postal service announced the six-days-per-week mail delivery business model was “no longer sustainable,” and said it would eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1. But at a Tuesday, April 9 meeting, the board backpedaled on the decision citing language in a continuing resolution measure passed by Congress specifically prohibiting the end of Saturday delivery. “The Board believes that Congress has left it with no choice but to delay this implementation at this time’” a statement released by the board of …

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Liberty

5:48 pm on Sunday, April 21, 2013

Disagree. Too simplistic as applied to USPS.   more ›

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Saturday Mail Delivery to End, Postal Service Announces

The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. Speak out: How will this affect you?

Calling the six-days-per-week mail delivery business model “no longer sustainable,” the U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail during the week of Aug. 5. The plan to change delivery from six days a week to five would only affect the street delivery of first-class mail. Packages, mail-order medicines, priority and express mail would still be delivered on Saturdays, and local post offices will remain open for business Saturdays. USPS spokesperson George Flood said most Americans are in support of the transition.  "We have done a lot of market research, and there has been some independent research," said Flood, "... that indicates seven out of 10 Americans supported the switch to the five-day …

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