5 days a week postal Mail?

I think the post office in nucking futs about this stupid idea and I order from e-bay daily and I need to get my stuff a.s.a.p and this will cause me to switch to amazon which is more expensive and I hate there payment section and I need all my bills when they are coming and I think they should just raise the postal rates again and the stamp rates again also. I think this is a terrible idea that they have and I hope that it never ever ever comes true cause if it did I would go postal and move to another country and I think someone should start a petition ask usps to keep it 6 days a week instead of 5 days that would totally stink. Good question and sorry about the rant but this tickes me off so bad you just dont understand.

All for it but it will never happen ( maybe a bit biased as i want my saturdays off).

Seriously though while i don't think it will happen (though it has been kicked about for 10 years now) it would save Royal Mail tens of millions a year.

Plus side businesses generally send post out during week getting bills/junk/advertising on a friday or monday instead of Saturday wouldn't really affect anybody as Saturday isn't really a good day for paying stuff and most firms customer servicesare based about 8am-8pm weekdays.

Negative side packets/birthday cards/presents would have to be sent earlier if birthdays was at weekend , vital stuff like documents ,legal stuff ,emergency items like medicine,electric key meters ,passports that are sent registered mail at great cost would be 2-3 days later .

So for me the negatives out balance the positives which is why it has never really been seriously pursued (yet) , they kick it out as a rumour every now and again to see what the public reaction is, then it gets put away again .

Postal workers haven't any lay off contracts. The postal provider will decrease the paintings rigidity in basic terms by attrition. The Postal provider has thousands and thousands of managers who're thoroughly valueless, no longer mandatory, and waste ten circumstances extra funds than the mail businesses. those managers will stay. So will the subject concerns.

I actually think it's a great idea. post office people can have the weekends off, and they can save fuel which is good for the environment and the money. This is better than raising postage prices every six months. As of bills, there are ways to view them online and pay online. We Americans are too spoiled and we want everything the easy way. I hope this recession is going to teach us a big lesson!

I didn't know that. I can't even imagine that to be truthful. I get a lot of bills on Saturday that I send out the following Monday and sometimes they barely make it to the company on time. Whatever happened to thru rain, sleet or snow, the mail must go thru, or whatever that saying was!!

Here in Australia we have only ever had 5 days a week mail delivery. We survive. Some of us even thrive. None of us really notice because we don't know any different.

Since 90% of my mail is either bills or junk mail, I wouldn't care if they cut it down to once a month.

I am fine with it. It will save us money, give them a weekend. There are plenty of other ways to mail stuff.

I see no problem. I get mostly junk and bills anyway. They can eliminate it altogether for all I care. I pay most bills online.