Post Office

Post Office Cuts Saturday MailABC News (blog)The delivery of letters and other mail has declined with the increasing use of email and the internet. Last September the service reported a record $15.9 billion loss for its fiscal year. For the first time last year the post office was forced to …

If it didn’t arrive in the mail on Friday, come August it may not arrive on Saturday either. In hopes of saving about two billion dollars a year, the U.S. Postal Service is making dramatic changes cutting out Saturday First Class Mail Delivery. More: continued here

South Florida reacts to Postal Service plan to end Saturday letter deliverySun-SentinelSome South Floridians will not miss the mail, others are disappointed that the United States Post Office will stop Saturday mail in August. By Doreen Hemlock, SunSentinel. 5:16 p.m. EST, February 6, 2013. South Florida's reactions. "It's a great …

Bloomberg U.S. Postal Service Says It Plans to End Saturday Mail ServiceBloombergThe post office's losses have continued to widen and are estimated at $25 million a day. Mail volume is down 26 percent from its 2006 peak. To pay bills and keep the mail moving, the postal service has had …

The U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday it plans to eliminate Saturday mail delivery beginning in early August, even though it will continue to deliver packages six days a week. More: continued here

South Florida reacts to Post Office plans to end Saturday mail deliverySun-SentinelThe U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday mail delivery starting this summer to save about $2 billion a year and cut its losses now estimated at about $16 billion yearly. The government agency would still deliver packages on …

WBUR US Post Office To End Saturday Letter DeliveryWBURUS Post Office To End Saturday Letter Delivery. By The Associated Press. File photo of U.S. Letter Carrier Gerald Tannehill delivering mail in Springfield, Ill. (AP/Seth Perlman). The head of the letter carriers union says it's a “disastrous idea …and more » More: …

Magazines React To Post Office Cutbacks: 'The Friday Evening Post'?New York Times (blog)The magazine industry, which has already been hurt by advertising declines and the loss of readers, spent Wednesday afternoon reeling from the latest news that they no longer would be able to get magazines delivered on Saturdays. Magazine …

You Can't Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together AgainEsquire (blog)Ten months ago, when I began reporting what would become "Do We Really Want To Live Without the Post Office?, nearly everyone I spoke with brought up cutting Saturday service because it's such an easy target — who wants bills over the …

The Post office is defying Congress by halting Saturday mail. But why?Washington Post (blog)The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it would stop delivering mail on Saturdays in an effort to save $2 billion per year and shore up its finances. Politically speaking, this is a bold move. In the …