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

[healthmyths]

Prove it! Ever hear of google?

Volume of First-Class Mail, which includes letters, postcards, and large envelopes, fell 50 percent between FYs 2008 and 2023, from 92 billion pieces to 46 billion.

 

[healthmyths]

Volume of First-Class Mail, which includes letters, postcards, and large envelopes, fell 50 percent between FYs 2008 and 2023, from 92 billion pieces to 46 billion.

Analysis of Historical Mail Volume Trends

Market Dominant mail — a category consisting primarily of First-Class Mail, Marketing Mail, and Periodicals — accounts for over half of the Postal Service’s revenue, but volume of these mail classes have been falling for nearly two decades.

www.uspsoig.gov

 

[JWBooth]

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.

Average mailpieces processed daily - U.S. Postal Facts

POSTAL FACT: The Postal Service processed and delivered an average of 371.3 million mailpieces daily in 2024.

facts.usps.com

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

Even better, remove the obstacles to private delivery.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

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.

Average mailpieces processed daily - U.S. Postal Facts

POSTAL FACT: The Postal Service processed and delivered an average of 371.3 million mailpieces daily in 2024.

facts.usps.com

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

As long as I can remember we have received mail on Saturdays.
They also deliver packages on Sundays

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Even better, remove the obstacles to private delivery.

One thing about that though - the private delivery is pretty bad.
Amazon Hub - their own delivery service is nowhere near as dependable as UPS. (Yes I know UPS is private) The clowns they hire to deliver look like they just got out of jail, or fresh out of rehab.

 

[JWBooth]

*^One thing about that though - the private delivery is pretty bad.
Amazon Hub - their own delivery service is nowhere near as dependable as UPS. (Yes I know UPS is private) The clowns they hire to deliver look like they just got out of jail, or fresh out of rehab.

You have a good point, private delivery has it's faults. UPS misdirects or loses about 10% of the Amazon orders I place. Amazon has never failed to make good on these items. USPS couldn't give a shit about the stuff they lose or misplace.

 

[Harry Dresden]

I'm sure there are, but why? I have never understood the urgency for regular mail to be delivered daily.

when you have a business to run or are getting meds, daily mail is important to them.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

In the summer, my mail has arrived as late as 9pm.

thats shitty management....my area had a decree that all carriers are to be off the street by 5 or 6....nothing like delivering mail in the dark especially when you encounter a dog you didnt see....

 

[iamwhatiseem]

You have a good point, private delivery has it's faults. UPS misdirects or loses about 10% of the Amazon orders I place. Amazon has never failed to make good on these items. USPS couldn't give a shit about the stuff they lose or misplace.

And FedEx is absolutely atrocious.
The benefit of USPS, with all of their faults - primarily being delays and more delays -is they almost never lose a package.
Having said that, that is changing. I run a printing company, we do several-several mailings a month.
Lost mail and delays are getting almost common now. We did a annual mailing for United Way here in Indiana - the USPS lost the entire mailing. It tracked to the Indianapolis bulk center - and simply vanished. We are talking 14 large totes of mail. Gone.
The issue is the USPS is facing the same GEN-Z issue as every other company - this generation simply doesn't want to work, and doesn't give a shit about anything but themselves. We are just beginning to experience the most lazy, selfish generation, perhaps, the world has ever seen.

 

[Harry Dresden]

First-class mail volume is down-I recall WAY down.

that doesnt mean other classes are down....parcels are way up ....

 

[Harry Dresden]

It is, let's start there.

what do you want to start?...

 

[pknopp]

what do you want to start?...

The topic of the thread. Didn't you read it?

 

[Harry Dresden]

I have a better idea: stop all junk mail. I don't need people stuffing my mailbox 6 days a week with 99% unsolicited solicitations designed to look official and important.

people in marketing would disagree with you.....mail advertising is pretty effective according to them....

 

[Harry Dresden]

How often is there a "communication" so urgent that it cannot wait until Monday? Be honest.



Junk mail is a profit-maker for the USPS.



Bills? In the...mail? Do you live in 1996?

many people still get bills through the mail...

 

[Zincwarrior]

I would be fine with keeping the USPS if they banned junk mail or charged it double the rate of a first class letter. it should not be subsidizing private shippers on last mile deliveries however. Thats corporate welfare. So of course they will continue to do that.

 

[Harry Dresden]

You have a good point, private delivery has it's faults. UPS misdirects or loses about 10% of the Amazon orders I place. Amazon has never failed to make good on these items. USPS couldn't give a shit about the stuff they lose or misplace.

you must have a shitty post office or shitty carrier....

 

[Harry Dresden]

The topic of the thread. Didn't you read it?

yea and i talked about that already....didnt you read it?...or did you just jump in?...

 

[pknopp]

yea and i talked about that already....didnt you read it?...or did you just jump in?...

I talked about it on page one. Why didn't you read it?

 

[Harry Dresden]

I talked about it on page one. Why didn't you read it?

i read it....so you get stuff on sunday because of Amazon....the PO won a billion dollar contract over UPS and FED-X to deliver them on Sunday....ok now what?...

 

[Independent thinker]

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.

Average mailpieces processed daily - U.S. Postal Facts

POSTAL FACT: The Postal Service processed and delivered an average of 371.3 million mailpieces daily in 2024.

facts.usps.com

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

We just need to stop the red ink. I say privatize it, or at least part of it. It's stupid for the country to go into debt delivering junk mail we don't want in the first place, just to pay the salaries of the people who deliver us that junk mail we don't want. Is that the definition of government or what?