So how many of you get mail on Saturday? If not what about stopping USPS delivery on Saturdays?

[Jarlaxle]

They stopped Saturday mail decades ago.

All they delivered on Saturdays was over night parcels and large packages.

Then stuff backed up. So they started doing every other Saturday for those who wanted overtime.

Stuff still backed up.

They ended up paying more in weekly overtime, than just rotating the schedules to include Saturdays.

So now, more often than not, it's just the metro areas that have Saturday mail.


The End.

Have any proof of this claim?

 

[Harry Dresden]

According to recent USPS data, the Postal Service spends approximately $5.8 million per day on salaries and benefits for mail delivery, which represents the average daily cost associated with delivering mail.

Total Mail Pieces Processed Daily - U.S. Postal Facts

POSTAL FACT: The Postal Service processed and delivered an average of 318 million mail pieces daily in 2023.

facts.usps.com

Stop delivery on Saturdays would save over $300 million. Why not? I don't need it on Saturday!

this has been argued about for years now....mail constantly moves forward and stops at the carriers route....if that mail builds up for 2 days at the route every Monday would be a 10-11 hour day and Tuesday and Wednesday would generate OT catching up.....so much for that so called 300 million....Christmas and election time would be a nightmare....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Louis DeJoy.
He's trump's Guy.
Right.

Louis DeJoy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

he is no different than any other PMG.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Zero reason for regular mail delivery on Saturday in most areas.

rural carriers maybe....city delivery not so much.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

I get packages on Sunday from the post office. Let's start there.

much of that is because of Amazon....

 

[Harry Dresden]

is there anyway you can answer question without bring up trump??

would you give up saturday mail delivery considering the savings it would have??

it wouldnt save anything....

 

[1srelluc]

They stopped Saturday mail decades ago.

All they delivered on Saturdays was over night parcels and large packages.

Then stuff backed up. So they started doing every other Saturday for those who wanted overtime.

Stuff still backed up.

They ended up paying more in weekly overtime, than just rotating the schedules to include Saturdays.

So now, more often than not, it's just the metro areas that have Saturday mail.


The End.

That's total BS, my town has had Saturday regular mail delivery ever since I've been around.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Thats not been my experience.

FedEx has only dropped the ball once in the past 30-40 years I've been using them.

The USPS has "lost" over 15 packages, over hundreds of letters/cards, and several bills (before online pay was invented).

your mail delivery is only as good as your carrier is.....and fed-x has fucked up quite a bit themselves as as UPS....

 

[Harry Dresden]

I get packages from every other delivery service on Saturday too. They aren’t losing money doing it. How about we just eliminate the USPS and let people that are better at it take over. That would save 5.8 billion every day of the week.

and who would better at it?......just curious.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

I think the market has already limited them to that since UPS FedEx etc can’t do letter delivery and they still can’t break even. If the USPS wasn’t government funded they would have folded 20 years ago.

are they govt funded?....

 

[Harry Dresden]

nd dont even get me started on maintenance for vehicles the gov employees treat like shit,,

a private company wouldnt allow it,,

lol....how do you know they treat them like shit?....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Heck I would be fine with 3 days a week personally. Do people REALLY need daily delivery of snail mail? If so why?

you would be surprised how many places do require it....

 

[Harry Dresden]

I think we could live without mail service on Saturdays and it would save Americans billions. Those who simply HAD to have something delivered on Saturday would still have UPS, Fed Ex, etc.

USPS might still want to over overnight express delivery on weekends, holidays and such but should charge enough to pay for their costs to do that.

no it wouldnt save billions....

 

[progressive hunter]

lol....how do you know they treat them like shit?....

I have eyes,,

 

[The Duke]

According to recent USPS data, the Postal Service spends approximately $5.8 million per day on salaries and benefits for mail delivery, which represents the average daily cost associated with delivering mail.

Total Mail Pieces Processed Daily - U.S. Postal Facts

POSTAL FACT: The Postal Service processed and delivered an average of 318 million mail pieces daily in 2023.

facts.usps.com

Stop delivery on Saturdays would save over $300 million. Why not? I don't need it on Saturday!

and who would better at it?......just curious.....

I tell ya wut, Chinese got some delivery service going on in America.
USPS is charging 100% more and delivering 50% less, what's up with that?

 

[Harry Dresden]

That's total BS, my town has had Saturday regular mail delivery ever since I've been around.

he is talking about 2x times once in 1947 and 1957....did not last long....and they had pretty light mail back then compared to later years....

 

[Harry Dresden]

I have eyes,,

so everyone treated them like shit?...

 

[1srelluc]

he is talking about 2x times once in 1947 and 1957....did not last long....and they had pretty light mail back then compared to later years....

I must have missed the context.

 

[progressive hunter]

so everyone treated them like shit?...

just the people I saw drive them,,

 

[Harry Dresden]

I tell ya wut, Chinese got some delivery service going on in America.
USPS is charging 100% more and delivering 50% less, what's up with that?

delivering 50% less?.....every year more and more addresses are added on to delivery routes or new routes are created to handle the new addresses.......and most routes every address gets something....so how is that delivering 50% less?...