Saturday Mail Delivery to End, Says USPS
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 support 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 delivery as a…
