Somehow we have managed the hardship.....but Canadians are a hardy lot...... :-)

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What mail do you get on Saturday that can't wait until Monday?

rob: My post office is so far from my office, if I get anything certified, I will have to take off of work to go pick it up.

Pretty clear.

It seems as if registered, certified, and express mail will continue to be delivered on Saturday as well as packages.

I suppose if I really miss him I could send a rgistered letter to myslf fri morning.

I do not use the mail a lot because I pay all my bills electronically and most deliveries I use FedEx or UPS but there are so many that it is their only option if they live rural. It is a shame. The party that gets it support from those rural dwellers be the ones they will hurt with this drive to privatize the US Post Office

My post office is so far from my office, if I get anything certified, I will have to take off of work to go pick it up.

That doesn't make any sense at all since Certified Mail is delivered to me next day. Unless my mail lady is breaking the rules. All I do is leave the signature form in mail box.

Yes she is breaking the rules. If you do not answer the door and they see you sign for the mail it is not official that the person received signed. What is the point of certified if you do not get a signature before you leave the mail?

But.....my mail man does the same thing but he knows me and knows I would not be home during the week (when I worked) and he knew I was out of town and would not be able to get the PO only on a Saturday. He also knew that the post office was so far away it would be a extra out of the way thing for me to do since I was only in town for 2 days a week.

It may have changed I have not received any certified mail in years. My company use to send us certified mail all the time since we were remote workers. Which was always a complaint since they knew they were sending us on the road and would not be home to sign for their certified mail.

Hope something works for the PO since it doesn't seem likely Congress will reconsider their short window retirement fund mandate.

I did beat the penny rise in postage; have enough "Forever" stamps to make them a will bequest. I do use the post office; do very little business of any kind on-line.

But Forever stamps--what rocket scientist thought that one up?

Maybe I can sign up for milk delivery.

The gorgeous, formal Post Office in the middle of our town is up for sale, to become -- perhaps -- a restaurant. Mail is handled out of a cement block structure on the far edge of town. I can drive into town in two minutes and will have a conversation with someone in line. The other place is ten minutes away; strictly in-and-out.

Don't tell anybody. She leaves an attempted delivery ticket. I sign it, place in mailbox, she leaves the mail next day.

I get a lot of certified mail. Maybe that's why.

But, no matter what type of mail it is, it can always be a day later. Life goes on.

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Imagine huge increases for service, especially for rural delivery or to really remote locations. By law, the post office must deliver mail to everyone, regardless of location. FedEx and UPS currently pays the postal service to make deliveries in areas considered less profitable. What happens when private companies declare your area just too unprofitable for them and decides to kick UPS and FedEx subsidies to the curb too?

Don't Oregon and Washington state do a lot - if not all - of voting by mail?

Though I personally can live without Saturday mail and we didn't die when twice a day delivery was cut in 1950, but this isn't over by a long shot of some in Congress get their way.

BTW, I still get door to door mail delivery. I live in an urban and older section of the city.

When I was a kid, we lived in a farm town. There was no door to door delivery and everyone's mailing address was the same.

General Delivery
Small Town, Alberta
X0X 0X0

They sorted the mail by last name and everyone went to the post office counter and asked for their mail by their name.

Imagine huge increases for service, especially for rural delivery or to really remote locations. By law, the post office must deliver mail to everyone, regardless of location. FedEx and UPS currently pays the postal service to make deliveries in areas considered less profitable. What happens when private companies declare your area just too unprofitable for them and decides to kick UPS and FedEx subsidies to the curb too?

Thats exactly what this is - Fedex and UPA give an awful lot of money to congressmen who in turn strive to destroy the post office through budgeting rules.

At the link is an interesting piece on how the post office blew it by basing their revenue planning on 3rd class bulk mailings.

As for myself, living in a remote rural area, getting rid of saturday mail means that I'll only be able to watch one netflix a week instead of two. Used to be that I could watch one on the weekend, return it monday, get one back wednesday, send it off thursday, get one back saturday. And no, I can't get fast enough internet to stream.

Basic postal and telephone services are a necessity. Wonder when high speed will be considered a necessity .....which I believe it should be.

And so everybody just had the post office mail them things.

And so, in another coincidence that just boggles the mind, both FedEx and UPS dropped the surcharge.

Yes, they are. Especially in some areas... it's a lot different for a country like Canada than the US when it comes to the definition of "rural". "Rural" in the US mainland would be considered "lives on the outskirts of town" in most parts of Canada.

Imagine if the northern 2/3 of the land mass... say everything north of Oklahoma... was just as remote as Alaska, and then imagine the logistical nightmare AND the absolute necessity of providing services to those areas.

I believe it is business customers who will raise the most heck about losing Saturday service-it is the mail and parcel pickup that is important to them not necessarily the delivery.

But then there are the set-asides to go through the shredder; the credit card co. "checks" to write myself a loan and the credit card applications, etc. I'll often stockpile the shreds and incorporate them in my compost pile.

Other paper goes to keep the recyclers in business.

Someone, maybe Rachel Maddow, mentioned David's Netflix situation - they'll probably retool their schedules. So will everyone else have to do the same if dealing with time sensitive issues.

I just invision a private company deeming a neighborhood too dangerous or maybe even too remote for the type of delivery patrons previously enjoyed. Or they'll just eliminate more small town P.O's. Maybe that is an unwarranted fear.

They obviously learned to live without Sundays and holidays. I think they can get used to living without Saturdays.

Think of all the savings in FUEL! And pollution.

Is that right? Does anyone remember that?

I saw something today that said the US Postal service delivered mail twice a day until 1950.
Is that right? Does anyone remember that?

Correct, generally twice a day to residential addresses until April 17, 1950, and as many as four time a day to businesses (multi-delivery continued to businesses continued, though tapered off, over ensuing decades). My dad told me that when he was a kid you could mail a letter in the morning and it would be delivered that same day within NYC.