Mail Delivery Frequency
A number of articles have appeared in the media in the last 6 months about the US Post Office (USPS) considering the elimination of mail delivery on Saturday. There was another item in today's Daily Sun. A hundred + years ago when the only point-to-point communication was mail, daily or even twice daily delivery made sense. With each increment in communications technology, e.g., telegraph, telephone, email, ..., the need for (and apparent use of) traditional paper mail falls. I am surprized that it has taken this long for someone to wonder about Saturday delivery. I do not believe that eliminating Saturday delivery will do much for the infrastructure costs associated with the USPS, but it should cut down some on delivery costs. Personally, I would push it a bit further and have delivery only 3 days a week. If most postal regions reduced delivery to Mon/Wed/Fri for half of their customers and Tu/Thur/Sat for the other half, I suspect that the delivery costs could be reduced by close to half.
Other thoughts?
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