Curbing mail delivery?
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- March
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Neither rain nor snow, nor sleet nor dark of night can stop the U.S. Postal Service, but a recession? USA Today reports here on the Postmaster General, John Potter, spelling out the dire financial problems facing the agency, which lost $2.8 billion last year and is expected to lose more this year.
Hours will be cut April 18 at some local post offices (see article here). Potter is seeking permission to reduce mail delivery from six days to five days a week. There’s also been talk of closing more rural post offices, but, to me, that seems like it would truly harm those with little access to mail delivery.
“At this moment, the survival of the Postal Service — a venerable institution that is literally older than our country — hangs in the balance,” National Association of Letter Carriers President William Young said today during testimony in front of a House subcommittee
While officials say the economic slowdown has contributed to a mail drop, what’s not discussed is the fact that, no matter the condition of the economy, more and more of us send out less and less mail. When was the last time you paid a bill by letter, or visited the post office? I still do, but not very often.
So, do you see five-day-a-week mail delivery in the 21st century as a problem? Cutting post office hours?
photo: Nyack Post Office/2001 Journal News file photo
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on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 4:08 pm by Nancy Cutler.
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