I for one receive and pay all my bills online. The only thing in my mailbox on Saturday is JUNK anyway. Any other mail that I would get can wait until Monday.

Can someone tell me what "essential" mail they get on Saturdays?

Maybe they could close every other Saturday?? I love my Saturday morning runs to the post office! And I have since I was a child; it's part of my ritual and brings back great memories. But memories don't pay down the debt, I realize that.

My understanding is that post offices will not close , they will just not deliver mail . So we will still be able to go to a post office and mail a letter or package . I only receive junk mail on Saturdays . In order to save more money , I would like to suggest that post offices also consider not delivering mail on Wednesdays .
Joe

Last year, the postal service lost $15.9 billion. I like Saturday delivery, but I prefer actually having any mail delivery even more. Problem is, they aren't even close to plugging that hole.

Quite frankly, if it were a private company it would have gone out of business a long time ago. They lose packages constantly and have little way of tracking lost packages. When the paper trail ends anywhere other then your mail box they tell you, "sorry, it must be lost". I might buy one stamp a month if that for my business otherwise everything else is done online. The employees are generally not very pleasant which I can't fathom being they get every conceivable holiday off and most likely have comprehensive benefits. 5 days of bills and junk mail is more then enough.

I like having mail delivery on Saturday. I get just as much essential mail on Sat. as I do any other day of the week, why would the day matter? I pay all my bills by mail except one or two that insist on auto-withdrawal. I want as little as possible of my personal business on the Internet. It's easier to take 5 minutes, write a couple checks, stamp them and put them in the mailbox than cranking up the computer, going to each account and entering passwords. That being said, if making Sat. a no-delivery day will keep the USPS in business, I'll support that. If post offices stay open till noon on Sat., that would be a plus, as we do a lot of package mailings on Sats.

BTW--I have never had a package lost in the mail. The employees at my post office are always friendly and helpful. They now offer free tracking on first class mail and I have always found them cheaper by far than UPS or FedEx. I took a pkg. to UPS to find out their rate--it was ~$45; the exact same pkg. with same ins. & tracking was $17.00. So, I use the USPS for all mailings!

Really, if home delivery was every other day, would it be a big deal?

I think they could deliver mail every other day or once a week as far as I am concerned. You can buy and ship online, and pay bills online etc. It would stop the 'demand' for the junk mail we get for those that still believe direct mail marketing is effective.
It is a business unit that is losing money..........stop the bleeding.

I think Monday, wednesday, friday delivery would be more than enough. Even Tuesday, Thursday would probably do. Would help if there was a way to ban junk mail!

I think we need mail delivery Mon-Fri at the very least. The website below can be used to opt out of credit card offers, etc., and you can google "stop junk mail" for more options. When I get those offers, I use their postage paid envelopes to return their junk mail (minus anything with my name) to them.
https://www.optoutprescreen.com/?rf=t

i have a friend who is a postal worker and he says if this happens,a lot of postal workers will be laid off...how does that help the economy?