President Barack Obama is backing a plan to cut mail delivery to five days per week, a proposal, that if supported by Congress, would likely end Saturday service.
In his annual budget released Monday, Mr. Obama said the U.S. Postal Service should be allowed to reduce its delivery schedule in 2013 as part of a wider strategy to save the agency $25 billion over the next 11 years.
“Bold action is needed to ensure that USPS can continue to operate in the short-run and achieve viability in the long run,” the president’s budget plan for fiscal-year 2013 said.
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Prior to the civil war there wasn’t any home delivery. You had to go to the post office (often a tavern or general store) to pick up your mail. The reason they started home delivery was that with most of the men away fighting, it was thought undignified for women to have to go to the tavern to pick up the mail.
Why even bother with mail delivery. Just have a central registry of email addresses, and private package delivery services.
It’s understandable that Saturday mail must be dropped. It’s ashame because growing up the best mail including gifts, report cards, birthday cards, always came on shabbos, anxiously waiting to collect the mail and look for the goodies motzei shabbos. Now we will have to wait till monday