USPS to end Saturday delivery (Cancelled)

[apsmith21]

"The Postal Service will announce today an end to Saturday delivery for first class mail, numerous media outlets are reporting."

Letters will still be delivered to Post Office boxes on Saturday, but there will not be any route delivery.

Package delivery will continue under the plan, but any items dropped at your local post office on Saturday (offices currently open on Saturdays will remain open) will not be processed until Monday.

I for one really like that a package I would mail on Saturday via 1st class USPS would arrive to someone by Monday afternoon.

However, under this change, it appears that delivery would happen Wednesday at the earlliest.

 

[93Cobra]

I thought this was already in affect, as I have not received mail on a Saturday in months!!

 

[Tbryson880]

I read this today. It's just a matter if time before the USPS shuts down for good....what's the US gonna use then??

 

[Wreck]

so priority mail will still deliver.....

 

[ocielz]

No Bueno

Very terrible news

 

[Che]

Nothing has been confirmed yet guys. I hope this is not the case as that means I will most likely be laid off come August. :tear: That would also bring my steelbook days to an abrupt end. Here's to hoping. The future of USPS is packages as online retailers are upending brick and mortar.

 

[ocielz]

Nothing has been confirmed yet guys. I hope this is not the case as that means I will most likely be laid off come August. :tear: That would also bring my steelbook days to an abrupt end. Here's to hoping. The future of USPS is packages as online retailers are upending brick and mortar.

That's even worse News compadre hopefully everything gets settled and you can keep your job and get more steels

 

[toddly6666]

This would suck. Saturdays are important to people that don't have the option to wait on long lines during regular work hours (9-5).

 

[Guinness7]

It is crazy if you look at the revenue that the post office has brought in over the years. It went from it most profitable year ever (I think 2002) to the next year were it started losing money and every year after that. Guess we will have to wait and see what happens.

 

[Che]

The "GREAT" GW Bush has enforced the postal reform act, so the postal service is mandated to pre-fund 5.6 BILLION $$$$'s every year for the retirement's health care. There is a surplus of over $7 billion. However, the congress won't let us have the money back to help save us from our dire straits. The talk in "the office" is that these greedy lobbyists want to privatize the mail system so corporations can pay meekly wages and not give retirement plans to their work force. It is a sad state of affairs. Unless some unknown plan within the PO is revealed I will be out of a job come August, leaving all the 60-70 year old career employees who refuse to retire with jobs and most people who are younger will be hitting the unemployment lines. Well done government!

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/post-office-business-trouble-0213?page=all

 

[Wreck]

Dont fed ex and UPS pay better tho? Are they even an option for you?

 

[Che]

Dont fed ex and UPS pay better tho? Are they even an option for you?

From my limited knowledge, UPS prefers to hire from within and work pretty long days. Fedex doesn't pay hourly but by volume as I have been told. I will definitely explore those avenues. I do not know how to drive stick though and all UPS trucks are stick. I'd probably fail my test.

 

[Drum18]

As Che mentionned:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/21/us-usa-postal-delivery-idUSBRE92K0OL20130321

Congress decided to keep six day delivery.

 

[PunkNinja]

That's a hell yeah. Good news for the postal workers and great news for us.

 

[Lone Crusader]

 

[ocielz]

Good to hear

 

[SlimJim24]

From my limited knowledge, UPS prefers to hire from within and work pretty long days. Fedex doesn't pay hourly but by volume as I have been told. I will definitely explore those avenues. I do not know how to drive stick though and all UPS trucks are stick. I'd probably fail my test.

It's not hard it's more fun than automatic anyway

 

[Sixteenvolt420]

If they'd quit selling stuffed animals and other useless garbage, and quit printing 9 million different types of stamps, i bet that'd help save them alot of mula. I know a few years ago, to cut costs, they made it so Media Mail is no longer shipped on it's own truck, which is why it no longer takes up to 2 weeks to receive a Media Mail package

 

[KilloWertz]

Not surprising. I didn't expect it to last even if it ended up starting anyways.