Say Goodbye to Saturday Mail

[BurtWorm]

Don't send it a note. It might not get it.

:cry:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/postal-service-to-cut-saturday-delivery/snail-mail/

Postal Service to Cut Saturday Delivery

Bad news, Netflix users: The U.S. Postal Service plans to see through plans to cut Saturday delivery. The USPS will present its regulator with a plan tomorrow that would cut Saturday delivery in the first half of 2011. USPS is hoping to save money, though the amount saved—$3.3 billion in the first year—is a mere chink in the $238 billion budget deficit that it faces by 2020. Post offices would remain open on Saturdays, and the postal service would continue processing and transporting mail, but it would not deliver it to homes and businesses. Congress currently requires six days of delivery and so will have to give USPS permission.
Read it at Business Week
Posted at 3:53 PM, Mar 29, 2010

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. I'll have to wait 2 extra days for Roadhouse 2?

:grr:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. And here i thought you were kidding. There actually is a part 2.

:rofl:

[JuniperLea]

2. Not surprising...

When I was a kid the mail was delivered twice a day during the week, and there was no Saturday delivery at all.

I mail my NetFlix from the office... gets back same day or next day.

Funny how the term "afternoon mail" slipped right out of my lexicon without so much as a by your leave!

[Cha]

3. That will be bad news for

my future netflix Sat delivery. I get twice a week.. Wed & Sat..quite the vid buff.

Darn.

[sui generis]

4. kind of like that Cosby clean-underwear joke

First they say it. Then they do it. You can tell every time they float a lead balloon that the decision is foregone.

I'm waiting for them to charge to mail but stop delivering altogether. Next stop? Three days a week instead of five.

[elocs]

5. I'm a Netflix user and no Saturday delivery will impact me.

Currently I can get 3 movies a week at one out at a time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday; or Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. This is because the dvds are sent from my Post Office and are returned to a P.O. Box there.

Oh well, such is life.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. One can only hope that this might mean fewer bills...lololololololol

and one extra day of leniency when one says "the check is in the mail".

[MadHound]

7. That's a bite,

Especially for people whose livelihood depends upon a regular mail service, six days a week.

Not to mention that the USPS is coming out with another rate hike on top of this.

It would be better, and more cost effective, for the USPS to get rid of the multiple layers of redundant administration that they've got built in to their business structure.

It would also help if they got much more fuel efficient delivery vehicles, something hybrid perhaps, rather than those massive monstrosities that I seem them running around in.

Hopefully the Congress will deny this cut in Saturday delivery, but given their record, probably not going to happen.

[Beaverhausen]

9. I wish they would cut Monday or Tuesday instead

[Morning Dew]

10. I was hoping they'd drop Mondays

They're off on a lot of Mondays anyway.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. EXCELLENT POINT!

[scarletwoman]

26. Mondays would make a lot more sense, since most Federal Holidays are on Mondays anyway.

Count me as another Netflix user who doesn't like the prospect of no Saturday delivery. :(

[BrklynLiberal]

11. I wonder if this will mean a cut in postal delivery persons' pay?

[abelenkpe]

15. I hope not

But if they are working one less day a week probably.
Not good for the economy. Few jobs, fewer hours leaves less money going into the local economy and will lead to more businesses closing. it's a downward spiral that really desperately needs to be addressed.

[grantcart]

30. no the Post Office has been down sizing all year

Volume at the post office is down by about 30%.

it had been declining because of email and pay by computer but the slow down hit the post office very hard.

over the last year the post office has been offering early retirement buyouts to reduce its load.

[Raschel]

13. One of many jobs to be affected by technology.

Movie rentals, books, etc. I don't see how we'll replace these jobs since we don't produce much and union jobs are becoming few and far between.

[abelenkpe]

16. We make movies

:)

[Soylent Brice]

14. the only thing this will affect is

my netflix deliveries. which, incidentally doesn't matter, now that i received my Wii disc from netflix for instant streaming.

if it saves money i say good on them.

[grilled onions]

17. Not Good For Those Who Get Their Meds Delivered

Many who find mail delivery a simpler route for those basic meds(seniors,disabled come to mind) may have to do without their meds if the timing isn't right. It's not that "we" don't order on time but between doctors having to do the refills,insurance refusing to fill before a certain date we often find ourselves counting the pills and wondering if there will be enough until delivery time!

[Orsino]

18. And not a mention of the jobs that will be eliminated.

I wonder how many will vanish in the name of "savings"?

[DarthDem]

19. Don't Count on Congress Approving This

n/t

[JBoy]

20. I don't think we've ever had Saturday delivery in Canada.

At least not in the last 40 years.

My own opinion, they could drop ours to Mon/Wed/Fri.

[bdamomma]

25. in bermuda we don't either

[Pab Sungenis]

21. The Post Office is ripe for de-privatization.

It was Nixon's privatizing the Post Office in the 1970's that started us down this road to reduced service and runaway rates.

Cut the mid-level management bloat, oust the overpaid executives, and put it back under government control and regulation now.

[sketchy]

24. +1

Exactly. It is a service, not primarily a for-profit business.
To use the language of the health care debate, it is the public option.

[Thothmes]

28. If I remember back correctly,

both houses of congress were under Democratic control when the Postal Reorganization legislation was passed.

[IDemo]

22. No more pizza coupons or carpet cleaning ads?

Won't miss it.

[damntexdem]

23. So ask your congresscritter to fight it.

No permission for them to dodge part of their mission!

[deacon]

27. Very bad news. This affects online shopping in a big way. Companies

and rent payers being charged late fees etc. It's not a good thing. Could result in many more job losses across the board.

[Toasterlad]

29. They Should Make It Wednesday Instead

Makes more sense to have two non-consecutive days off, rather than a two day gap.

[grantcart]

31. The USPS is going to lose about B 30 billion this year

But a large part of that is the Republicans passed a law forcing the Post Office to pay in advance for retirement costs rather than pay their annual contribution, as all other agencies do.



They will also be asking to close a large number of underperforming rural offices, which Republicans will fight and then accuse the Post Office of being inefficient.

[Betty Karlson]

32. The mail is being targeted worldwide.

The main Dutch mail delivery company, TNT, has announced intentions to scale back its deliveries to three weekdays, max.

[BREMPRO]

33. a plus- one less day of delivery- millions of gallons of gas saved and fewer global emissions.

i honestly think this is a good idea- I don't mind waiting an extra day for bills, unwanted solicitations, and junk ads. if you absolutley need something saturday or sunday- fed ex it.