U.S. Congress set to force Postal Service to keep Saturday delivery

[rsmith6621]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/21/usa-postal-delivery-idUSL1N0CD00Y20130321?feedType=RSS&feedName=governmentFilingsNews&rpc=43


(Reuters) - The financially beleaguered U.S. Postal Service has suffered a setback in its plan to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail, as Congress advanced a spending bill requiring six-day delivery.

The Postal Service, which lost $16 billion last year, had announced last month its plan to switch to five-day mail service to save $2 billion annually.


No law requires the Postal Service to deliver mail six days a week, but Congress has traditionally included a provision in legislation to fund the federal government each year that has prevented the Postal Service from reducing delivery service.

The Senate on Wednesday approved a spending bill that maintained that provision. The bill, known as a continuing resolution, now goes to the House of Representatives for final approval.

"Once the delivery schedule language in the Continuing Resolution becomes law, we will discuss it with our Board of Governors to determine our next steps," said David Partenheimer, a spokesman for the Postal Service.

[graham4anything]

1. Get rid of Fed Ex/DSL and the other private firms and tell ebay to allow postal money orders

Those two steps would bring in millions a day of lost revenue

People that think a letter should be delivered from NY to some small town in Oregon for 46cents are really greedy and selfish. They should raise the price to at least $7.50.

Because FedEx charges 17 bucks and up for the same service

[sharp_stick]

3. get rid of really?

How exactly are you planning on eliminating 10's of thousands of jobs while outlawing several publicly and privately held companies while still managing to stay in the legal realm of the United States.

[graham4anything]

5. Post office did quite fine til Fed Ex stole the profitable stuff and left the clunker stuff

If not, force fed ex to deliver for 46 cents instead of 17.00.
Most don't realize how great the post office is.
Why do you think fedex don't deliver door to door but only packages and overnight.

I was referring to overnight mail.

Fed Ex could still do the UPS stuff.

Most people who hide things do so through the private firms, because the fraud stuff in the mail only applies to the federal US Post office, so they can make their illegal shipments private.

Guns and bullets for instance are shipped covertly as the US Post office don't allow it, at least in this area.

But taking away the PO profitable stuff has caused this problem in reality, leaving all conspiracy theories out of it.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Keep Saturday, lose Monday.

Lines up better with Monday as Federal holidays anyways.

I always felt that five days of mail delivery was adequate.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Just keep forcing the USPS into bankruptcy so the private vultures can

swoop in.