No Saturday Mail?

[KristinaB]

people still read magazines these days??? the paper version???

We get 5 magazines a month and then there's the catalogs. MIL is an old-fashioned person. I like my print version of Weight Watcher's. My mother get's the other 4. Any other's I want, I get at the library.

 

[Reba]

They should keep Saturday delivery. Instead they should deliver half of their routes on MWF and the other half on TTHS. Cuts labor, fuel usage, mileage on vehicles and carbon emissions in half while delaying mail by one day at the most.

One-day mail delays can be important to businesses and people expecting checks. That also means the carriers will be toting around twice the load on the days that they do deliver.

 

[quirkylibra]

I don't need Sat mail. I do like the excitement of getting the mail though! :P

 

[Reba]

It also cut jobs too.

True.

 

[Reba]

People still pay bills by mail??

Some do.

Hubby's customers pay him by cash or check, so he does get some payments by mail.

My clients pay me by check, mostly by mail.

 

[KristinaB]

For the most part I am okay with USPS. I am happier here in FL than in MO with the USPS. In Missouri, it would take 5-8 days to have a letter delivered regular mail across town and 10-12 days to get it to Florida. Here in Florida, it's 1-2 days to get across town and 3 days to get it to Missouri. My local USPS office I go to is the main location that does the sorting for the airport and gets it ready for transport. We have an average of 10 employees working the counter on any given day and 4 people 6 days a week in the passport office. I have had to go into the post office for services both yesterday and today and they were extremely deaf friendly and quick about their work. Yesterday was a 35 minute wait in line, today was a 15 minute wait. I just don't like the varied times that the delivery is made at the house. Some days it comes at 10am, most days at 4pm and once in a while at 7pm.

 

[Reba]

Post offices don't need to be closed but if they don't want to deliver mail on saturday, maybe people can pick it up themselves... but then again, they may not want the long line.

If people are driving to post offices to pick up their mail, that doesn't help the carbon footprint, does it?

 

[Reba]

lol let's see....

old farts, tech-illiterate people, people with no CC, poor people, and paranoid people

I'll let you figure out which group to which I belong. :P

The only way I can get paid by my clients is by the checks that they mail me. Several of them use out-of-state accounting services who mail out the checks on certain dates.

 

[Reba]

I say there should be no delivery on a Saturday. Businesses are able to wait until Monday and people should be as well. Mail delivery is crappy at best, but it is still the way a lot of people communicate.

Let me ask you this. Do you mind if your paycheck is a day or two late?

 

[Reba]

people still read magazines these days??? the paper version???

Absolutely!

We also share them with each other, to save paper and money.

I clip out and save important articles.

Much better to stock bathroom "libraries" with magazine reading material.

 

[KristinaB]

Let me ask you this. Do you mind if your paycheck is a day or two late?

I guess I didn't think of it that way. I do understand your position. Sorry. I would never want my paycheck to be late at all if I had one.

 

[Lighthouse77]

Let me ask you this. Do you mind if your paycheck is a day or two late?

actually, I wouldn't mind if I know when I should expect it to come. Kinda like my husband expect his paycheck to come every two weeks, while other expect it to come every week. And some people expect their paycheck to come monthly. You'll just have to work your schedule around it.

 

[TXgolfer]

One-day mail delays can be important to businesses and people expecting checks. That also means the carriers will be toting around twice the load on the days that they do deliver.

I guess they still walk in places.....They drive box to box here so no biggie.

Plus in my plan I only cut 140,000 rather than 170,000.....Eliminating junk mail should help with the load as well and the savings should more than offset junk mail revenue.

I think we would adapt to they slight delay pretty quickly. Its a tremendous savings.

 

[Reba]

actually, I wouldn't mind if I know when I should expect it to come. Kinda like my husband expect his paycheck to come every two weeks, while other expect it to come every week. And some people expect their paycheck to come monthly. You'll just have to work your schedule around it.

We don't receive our checks on any "set" date, so we can't schedule them.

 

[jazzy]

They should keep Saturday delivery. Instead they should deliver half of their routes on MWF and the other half on TTHS. Cuts labor, fuel usage, mileage on vehicles and carbon emissions in half while delaying mail by one day at the most.

I am a rural carrier and have my own route, I don't agree with you. Saturdays are slowest and lightest delivery. Most businesses are closed on Saturdays. We usually get done by noon on Saturdays then during MTWTHF, more hours. For instance today I got off at almost 3 pm compare yesterday I got off at 1:15. Everyday is different except for Saturdays, not many mails and packages so I can understand why Saturdays are wasting PO's money.

 

[Lighthouse77]

We don't receive our checks on any "set" date, so we can't schedule them.

I don't see the purpose of getting them in saturday... most people get their mail in the late afternoon and banks are more likely to be closed and closed on sunday.

 

[Reba]

I guess they still walk in places.....They drive box to box here so no biggie.

Plus in my plan I only cut 140,000 rather than 170,000.....Eliminating junk mail should help with the load as well and the savings should more than offset junk mail revenue.

I think we would adapt to they slight delay pretty quickly. Its a tremendous savings.

I thought the "junk" mail subsidized the first class mail costs? If junk mail is eliminated, the cost of stamps will increase, right?

 

[jazzy]

One-day mail delays can be important to businesses and people expecting checks. That also means the carriers will be toting around twice the load on the days that they do deliver.

True. If they closed Saturdays then on Monday will be long day and mails will be deliver later than usual.

 

[jazzy]

I thought the "junk" mail subsidized the first class mail costs? If junk mail is eliminated, the cost of stamps will increase, right?

Yes your right without junk mails the price will be higher.

 

[KristinaB]

True. If they closed Saturdays then on Monday will be long day and mails will be deliver later than usual.

Just look at how much later the mail is delivered on the day after a holiday where the post office was closed. It's a nightmare and our carrier is bogged down big time.