What is your opinon on the USPS cutting Saturday delivery? + jacking up rates?

I don't mind them cutting the Saturday delivery but if they're saving so much that way, why increase the rates?! I know they're in trouble but it's not my fault!! I'd actually prefer no Saturday delivery. That way, I could go somewhere and not worry about someone maybe coming up on the porch and getting my mail. Not that it has ever happened but they warn about it. Mail carriers would have a 4 day week and the post office would save on substitutes, too, on that 6th day. If they're saving that much money, why raise rates?!

I don't use the post office much, so I don't really care. I pay all my bills online or in person, I don't send cards or letters.. I e-mail. I honestly buy less than half a dozen stamps a year. When I have something to be mailed I go buy 1 stamp and that's it. I don't really recieve any exciting mail either.

i think they're cutting their own throat further. people will just go to the competition. i honestly wouldn't miss an extra day,but businesses that can't wait til monday i'm sure will go elsewhere.

Well, I know that there are a lot of people in my family that would get very angry if they knew that I was saying this, but let them be. I am in favor of cutting the Saturday delivery because the business world typically only operates five days per week, why should the postal service be any different. In terms of the rate hikes, I think that those are getting excessive. I haven't mailed anything through the physical mail since I moved into this house a little over a year ago. It is more convenient to pay everything online and it is far cheaper in the long run as well.

I do not like the idea because then alot of mail will get back up and be deliver on monday.

Ah the United States Postal Service, the model for incompetence. The truth is, I have heard of Saturdays being eliminated for quite some time. Given the fact that they take off any holiday they can manage it seems, even those who they really have no right to take off, then I can imagine them cutting Saturdays. We'll be lucky to be down to a couple hundred days a year with them running at that. As for the rate increase, oh boy, that's never good news. The reason I'm saying this is that there is a definite level of correlation between the rate increase of the United States Postal Service and the quality that it provides. As in the quality really takes a dip but yet they get paid more. Perhaps it is just me but I just find something really wrong about that fact. Then again, I suppose I am a fool for expecting anything regarding competence. I am limiting my use and have been for years. To the absolute bare minimum possible and believe me, that minimum is something that I regret doing. Given the fact that things get lost in the mail on a too regular basis and I get sent things that never reach my mailbox a lot of the times, I wondering what the United States Postal Service did with the money from that previous rate increase. It certainly was not to improve their service, I can can tell you that much.