The key details of the plan are:
- Street delivery and blue box collections will be eliminated on Saturdays
- Express Mail service will continue seven days a week
- Post Offices currently open on Saturday will remain open
- PO Box accessibility will continue
- Bulk mail and drop shipments will continue to be accepted at facilities that are currently open
There's a website that explains the proposal here:
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It will be difficult to hire & keep RCAs when they won't be working on a regular basis (only annual & sick leave). This rural area will see a reduction in the newspapers that we deliver. Customers don't want to see Saturday's news on Monday or Tuesday when Monday's a holiday. So we will see a drop in at least the weekend paper and maybe the whole subscription.
We're a small Post Office and the lobby is open on Saturdays from 7am to 3:30 because the rural carrier opens and locks the lobby door. The lobby will only be open from 7:30 to 10:30 if we don't have rural delivery because those are our hours for the PMR.
I am a small office also. So they are saying if you want your mail on Saturday you will have to rent a PO Box BUT, you may only have a couple of hours to get your mail. Or maybe the PMR Postmaster)will have to go back and lock the lobby at a certain time. Also, I do not have DPS so I will have to sort all the mail to get the PO BOX mail to put it in the PO Boxes. I will have a lot of rural customers calling to see if their check has come in since it didn't arrive on Friday and they need it real bad.
I am in a small rural intermediate office & the PMR locks the door when she leaves on Saturday morning. The lobby is only open for 2 hours for customers to get their PO box mail. Once your customers know the hours they will adjust. As far as giving rural customers their mail, I think that would be a big mistake. Something I will not even start doing for anyone or that is all the PMR is going to get done on Sat.
I have to wonder what offices were polled to make the determination that Saturday is the lowest mail-volume day. That certainly isn't the case in my office...Monday is the heaviest volume, with Saturday a close second. (Tuesday is the lightest volume day.) If my carriers don't carry on Saturday, they will have twice as much every Monday...it will be like the day after a Monday holiday every week!! I'm certainly not looking forward to that.
Sometimes customers cannot adjust. For the customers that live in small communities they most likely work in another town. We leave our town before the post office opens, come back after they close and work Saturdays until noon. How would we adjust if we lived in your town?
A lot of the "savings" will probably be spent on Monday overtime.
This is one step short of indicating a Sign of a sinking ship.
It's necessary. People who absolutely require Saturday mail will just have to get a P. O. box. Something -- to a non-PO box address -- that absolutely has to be delivered on Saturday, will have to be sent Express. Most mailers will learn to adjust by mailing items earlier in the week, so as to get delivery by Friday. The biggest problem, to me, are the daily newspapers that are delivered by mail and NETFLIX, our biggest customer, that is already transitioning to electronic downloading; this will only hasten that process.
I think it is a good plan. If customers absolutely want their mail on Saturdays they will rent a box. Not only will we save money but our revenue will increase with more PO Box rentals.
We have a home goods store that made a bold change about two years ago. Instead of conducting retail business 7 days per week, they are only open Thurs, Fri, Sat, and Sun.
The company is still in business despite the economic decline. Apparently, customers have adjusted. I would miss Saturday home delivery and collection box pick-up, but customers (including me) will have to adjust. Major economic changes and spending habits need to dictate the future of a business if it is to remain viable.
My HCR driver brings my mail from a town 60 miles away, delivering mail along the route. Will she be required to drive that far each Sat., bringing only my PO Box mail?
This infomation presented is geared toward the public and how it will affect them. I can not find anything on how it will affect the carriers themselves. The rumor is that it will bring about a reduction of 36,000 jobs in the post office. I know that it will affect the T6s. Some of them are high in seniority and it will cause a rebidding of routes, as well.
One more way Service is leaving the U. S. Postal.
I don't think this will affect the volume on Monday as much as some fear. Remember they will be cutting back on mail processing with this change. Since mail won't be processed or transported it will arrive at offices for delivery on Tuesday instead of Monday.
Most Companies are closed on Saturday. Not too many people are sitting at home on a Saturday waiting for mail, eccept when there is a check in the mail. Most people are out and about on Saturdays. Most Saturdays is when carriers call in. I would want to believe that the US Postal Service has taken good care of thier employees and now it is time for the employees to take care of thier company.
We need to also note PO Box Mail is open 24 hours at Postoffices and any other PO Box will be treated as regular mail as far as Saturday delivery is concerned. We also require Outbox and inbox key that is common to Homeowner/Buisness owner and Mailman or mail man has master open lock key like homebuilder/open houses have. This will be secure mailboxes. Who does not like it?
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