No mail delivery on Wednesdays? Your opinion

I would be happy to give up mail delivery on Wednesday to save gov't money. We get about one piece of official mail per person in the house per day. The rest is junk which subsidizes the real mail so I don't complain. I can't think of any reason I can't wait one day, in between two-3 days of daily delivery, for anything in the mail. Wouldn't that save a lot of money, not driving the complete route to millions / billions of mailboxes that one day a week?
How do you feel?

I think they should do Tuesdays, that's the day all of our junk mail runs! LOL I haven't received one piece of mail Wednesday or yesterday, we'll see what happens today.

See?--yet I'm sure the postal person drives the whole route every day, altho some will have no mail.

Our postal person is Dave's cousin's best friend :)

I could do without mail on saturday....our post office is only open 2 hours on saturday and that seem silly also. But this is in a very small town.

I won't miss no mail on Wednesday. It might be a problem if you ship plants on a Monday though. They may sit at a PO for an extra day before being delivered.

Maybe later in the week...but no increase in postage then! And leave the P.O. open for business on Saturday morning. People need it on the weekend.

Hm good points.

I don't check mine but maybe twice a week anyway. Figure those bill can get paid the following week without interruption of service. Maybe pump up the schedule around the Holidays for busy times.

Ok, let's give up Monday. That means you still have Tues thru Sat to time sending things, that ought to do it. We'll keep the Sat delivery for people to be home when the mail comes.

And of course-- bonus pay for Dave's cousin's best friend because... well just because we like him/ her!

Monday is THE most important mail day. No way they can cancel Monday...plants and seeds are often shipped Monday, businesses go into superdrive on Monday. Maybe Thursday.

I think Wednesday would be a good day to cut out. Things that are shipped usually arrive here on a Monday or Saturday for some reason. Weds. is in the middle so plants, for instance, wouldn't have to wait over a 2 or 3 day weekend.

Depends. Things could easily end up sitting around somewhere over the weekend, If anything gets to the local area the day before the shut-down day. I don't even know if they are just talking about shutting down operations within the local P.O./delivery and walk-in services. There is also the part of the P.O. that picks up mail from the local P.O. and any large drop-off boxes they haven't already closed, takes it to the central regional area, sorts it, takes to where it's to be shipped, trucks going between certain areas, picks up & drop-offs at airports, etc. That would be so much worse if they shut down those. That could mean a full two-day delay in mail instead of one in many cases.

Nice that you all aretalkng about saving the government money, but lets have a little learning, absolutely NO government funds or Tax dollars support the US Postal Service! It is the only independantly financed government agency, all costs are covered by the sale of postage, and postal services such as priority, registered and express mail, and retail sales, of bears, stationary, and the Ready Post packaging supplies, and stamp collecting items. So think about that when you complain that the price of a stamp went up! Because so did the gas, the paper products, insurance for employees....and so on.

Check your localand state Postal Organizations, occassionally the US Postal Service has Surplus Item sales that are open to the public, where you can purchase everything from computers to cars and trucks, depends on what the surplus in your state is

That's nice there is a government organization doing so well. Happy to hear it. So, why were they wanting to cut back service if it isn't a money issue?

because we the people wined about the price of a stamp...if we don't want them to hike postal prices then the only way to compensate for increased costs in health care, maintenance and fuel, then they must decrease services...simple economics

Oh. I don't care about the cost of postage. It hasn't gone up much compared to most things. There are many more important things to be upset about, IMHO. But, I didn't mean to get political. Just thinking I could do without mail on Wednesdays if need be.

sorry I'm one of the postal workers who lost there job over it...they closed our entire office

O.K. I get where you're coming from. What a shame to have that happen. I hope they change their minds and you get back to work soon.

in my case I can't because since then I have gotten sick, but it makes me sad, everyone but the post master in our office said we'd take a paycut rather than loose our jobs, but nope aint gonna happen

trinawitch- I am sorry to hear about your job cut and office closure. Thanks for giving us some facts.
I also do not complain about the cost of mailing things; I think it's great that I can send a letter cross country so fast.
I could have sworn tho that I kept hearing the Postal service was losing money every year?? just thought I'd float a 'cost saving ' idea, for conversation

I know a few ways to cut costs there...not nice ones...like stop overpaying postmasters in small offices like where I worked...stop allowing them to collect pay from 2 different offices...oh the abuses I saw in a small office!

Its everywhere Trina, screw the little people and pay the ceo"s. It's a money racket for sure.