6 days of junk mail in 5 days

USPS just announced it will suspend Saturday mail deliver on Aiugust 1st.

Since all I get is bills and junk mail, no big loss. One less trip to the mail box per week to get trash can filler.

My nearest post office (as the crow flies) is open one hour and 55 minutes each day. You are unable to rent a P.O. box there and there is no mail sorted in this post office, it is taken care of by the neighboring town. The lady postmaster who operates the shack will be happy that her work load will be cut.

Just remembered that asked about a hydraulic assist front wheel drive. Did Levy make one for a M-F?

How are these small post offices that have no rural route and are open just several hours a day funded?

The way I understand it only MAIL (i.e. envelopes) DELIVERY will be cut.

They will still deliver packages 6 days a week.

The post office will still be open for business 6 days a week.

I get the mail, sort it walking back to the house, stop at the recycling can and chuck the junk mail, never comes in the house! Lol
If I happen to come in threw the cellar, it goes in the other recycling bin, the wood stove!

Wish the junk mail had to pay full First Class postage.

From what I read in the news today, by law, Congress has to approve it before it can take effect and to this date, every time the subject has come up, they have not approved it. Guess we'll have to wait and see. Then on the other hand, since external_link has been on the throne, law mean absolutely nothing.

Since the USPS has largely morphed itself into a subsidized delivery service for junk mail, this is no great loss.

Dean

It should help save ware and tare on my old mail box by about 16.666 %

It seems funny that they cut service and raise prices to get themselves out of finiancal problems.Most business that want to get ahead provide better service at a cheaper price so they gain more business.But I guess it is goverment so us working people will never understand.

Bingo!

That would end a wasteful problem.

Dean

This has to be one of the biggest jokes around. Just the other day, I had to put a letter into the mail for the third time. Granted, the war department put it into the outgoing stack without a stamp. And I missed it. When they returned it, we put a stamp on it and put it back into the box, after crossing out the 'return' stamp. And then, they returned it to us anyway, a second time. It wasn't obliterated enough...

Not to try to lengthen out this rail, the first class rate continues to rise. Why not increase the junk mail rates significantly? Because some business might have to pay more? And therefore claim some more business expense off their tax return? After getting a cheap delivery boy to deliver the same junk that was in the paper last week? I get a letter or two delivered to me daily, at a cost of a buck or so. And about ten pieces of junk, often weighing a great deal more, addressed to 'Boxholder', at a contribution to the post office of about forty cents total. If the junk mail paid it's own way, we wouldn't have quite as much junk mail, and the post office would make a great deal more for it's delivery, which would still be quite a bargain, and increasing it's profit in the process. Increase junk (bulk) mail rates a few cents, and the mail service would likely be into the black after one year.....

donjr, I think you have a good suggestion! Heck, I get enough crap from Publishers Clearing House to pay the salary of at least one PO employee.

"Junk Mail" does pay it's own way, in fact, it subsidizes first class. Bulk rate is delivered to the Post Office regional already sorted and bundled by routes; the Post office doesn't pick it up, sort it, or transport it across the country.

Now...My only issue with the mail. I gotta get my neighbors drunk son to quit hitting my mail box when he backs out of their driveway.

So let it pay for more of first class. After all, it is tax deductible....

The USPS has been trying to eliminate Saturday delivery for years, but Congress keeps blocking it. If the Postal Service was truly a private business, it would have declared Chapter 7 years ago. It has a product for which the demand is highly elastic (meaning it can't raise prices without losing business), and an owner (Congress) that won't let it take steps to reduce cost. I know of towns out west where the post office has been the only remaining business for decades. It makes no sense to keep these branches open when the population they once served is long gone, yet politics prevent them from closing.

Our new external_linkcare insurance will be following the USPS in a year or two also. The Gov is good at business!!