Postal: Saturday Delivery Axed- it's official

[James48843]

Well, it appears that it is now a done deal.

Post Office announces they are stopping mail deliveries on Saturdays, effective AUGUST 1.


Details:

Postal Service to cut Saturday mail to trim costs - FederalNewsRadio.com (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/537/3219321/Postal-Service-to-cut-Saturday-mail-to-trim-costs)

[Boxholder]

No, I don't think it's a done deal until our "do-nothing Congresss" OK's it. I think it is the Postmaster General's way of forcing Congress to approve or disapprove. Besides, our Messiah hasn't been OK to spending cuts in the last four years anyway.

[KevinD]

Statement from the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors (http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_0410bogstatement.htm)



The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service met April 9 and discussed the Continuing Resolution recently passed by Congress to fund government operations. By including restrictive language in the Continuing Resolution, Congress has prohibited implementation of a new national delivery schedule for mail and packages, which would consist of package delivery Monday through Saturday and mail delivery Monday through Friday, and which would have taken effect the week of Aug. 5, 2013.