To save money the Postal Service is considering stopping Saturday service... won't that hurt the economy in the long run (slowing down business correspondence)?
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NO! It isn't necessary to receive mail on Saturdays since most businesses are closedover the weekend.
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No. Very few businesses that rely on mail for anything are open weekends at all anyway. And those that do will simply use FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc. It may cost them customers, though.
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I don't think it will hurt the economy in the long run. Most businesses aren't open on Saturday anyways. And the amount of money they would save just shutting down one day, would be amazing! (I use to work for the post office)Fed Ex and UPS only deliver Monday - Friday, UNLESS you pay extra for saturday delivery.
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It's not so much about a business needing to be open on Saturday to receive the mail, it's that it would be one extra day for the mail to to make its trip through the postal system.
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Probably not to any important degree. As Bacchus has said, there are alternative media for moving correspondence. But it's one more step away from efficiency. When I was a boy, first class mail cost a penny, business mail was delivered three times a day, six days a week, and residential mail twice a day.
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I don't think Saturday would make a big difference specially to residential customers. Fedex and UPS are not delivering on the weekends.
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I'd rather see Wednesdays being a no mail day. It usually is a no mail received day for my household. For those that live rural with a post office box, Saturday is the only day they can pick up the mail. With this day taken away, who knows what bills will be sent to collection, because they weren't able to get the mail with the post office closed on Saturday. I only know this because that's the situation myself and other people in my community were in...Saturday was the one day we could get the mail.
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I had heard it was probably going to be a day midweek they cut out. Based on flow of mail I think I heard Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the slow days of the week. Of course I caught this a couple of weeks ago before anything real had been formalized.
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There's enough private industry to cover the USPS if they close down for the weekend. You could even start your own mail delivery service when they put that in place, and you're almost sure to be profitable.
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No, most mail is junk mail anyway. And you can not take care of most business until the following Monday anyway.
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