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Wednesday, 06 February 2013
The Pony Express will end Saturday mail deliveries: higher prices + less service = #Winning
Hot on the heels of raising their prices (again), the Postal Service announced plans to eliminate Saturday mail delivery.
The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion, the financially struggling agency says.
In an announcement scheduled for later today, the service is expected to say the Saturday mail cutback would begin in August.
Under the new plan, mail would still be delivered to post office boxes on Saturdays. Post offices now open on Saturdays would remain open on Saturdays.
Apparently "millions of Americans" support the switch to a 5 day delivery schedule. These are the people who still believe the Pony Express is in the mail delivery business.
They're not. They're in the retiree pension and health benefits administration business. Most of the money you spend on postage doesn't go toward delivering the mail. It goes into the pockets of retired mailmen. And their doctors.
The Post Office isn't unique in that regard. Government Motors is also primarily a pension plan; their sideline just happens to be building cars instead of delivering mail.
I wonder if GM will ever build a car that only runs 5 days a week.
Posted at 09:32 by Chris Wysocki
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