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by protomyth 5526 days ago
The USPS makes money on the spam/junk mail and packages, not on letters. The profit incentive for them is not the same as their customers desires.
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I understand the bulk mailers make up a good portion of their income, and effectively subsidize regular mail. However, I don't think it's an acceptable tradeoff. You can makeup for the difference by probably dropping a single day of delivery - my guess is postage wouldn't even have to raise if you dropped to either 4 or 5 days a week.
They are going with what they know makes them money. They have already cut Saturdays, and I would expect them to cut another day too.
They haven't cut saturdays in my area, so it's probably just a regional or maybe rural thing?