USPS Home Mail Delivery: How Many Days A Week?

[amcnj]

The United States Postal Service has been having money woes for some time now. I recently read that Congress was finally taking some action to help the situation

But I started thinking of how little I receive in the mail these days and therefore if I need six day a week delivery. I am not talking packages or business locations, just the door-to-door home mail delivery.

I was trying to determine just how many days a week would be enough in my case now. I am thinking twice a week at most? I would probably even be OK with one day a week.

What would work best for or be acceptable to you?

 

[JamesWinston]

Six days a week. I use my mailbox to mail payments out the old fashioned way. Government woes mean nothing to me, they can wipe their tears with my tax return.

 

[lynxstch]

6 days a week,,but we only actually get any mail maybe 3 of those 6

 

[Sinder]

The majority of stuff I get in the mail is junk so I think 4 or 5 of mail delivery is OK.
I am all for the gov't saving where they can.

 

[adkkev]

Six days a week. I use my mailbox to mail payments out the old fashioned way. Government woes mean nothing to me, they can wipe their tears with my tax return.

The USPS does not receive any taxpayer dollars.

 

[soccerdad72]

I'm sure I'd be fine with 3 or 4 days a week in general.

 

[TippyThomas]

99% of the mail I get is all junk mail. I'd be happy with fewer days for delivery.

 

[ShirikiUtundu]

We only get our mail from the box once or twice a week. So delivery like that would be fine for me as well. It would be nice if we could end the junk mail cycle too. So much waste, and the post office is basically just dropping it to the resident to throw it away. Eliminate the middleman! Many mail carriers I know are getting overtime pay.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

2 or 3 days a week would be fine with me.

 

[TippyThomas]

We only get our mail from the box once or twice a week. So delivery like that would be fine for me as well. It would be nice if we could end the junk mail cycle too. So much waste, and the post office is basically just dropping it to the resident to throw it away. Eliminate the middleman! Many mail carriers I know are getting overtime pay.

I wonder how much of their budget is associated with delivering junk mail? It'd be interesting to see how it would all break down.

 

[JamesWinston]

The USPS does not receive any taxpayer dollars.

That isn’t even remotely true. It was a big to do during the last administration, if you recall.

 

[soccerdad72]

That isn’t even remotely true. It was a big to do during the last administration, if you recall.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-f...s-the-u-s-postal-service-governed-and-funded/

HOW IS THE POSTAL SERVICE FINANCED?
The Postal Service receives no direct taxpayer funds. It relies on revenues from stamps and other service fees. Although COVID-19 has choked off the USPS revenue in recent months, factors that arose well before coronavirus have contributed to the unsustainability of the Postal Service’s financial situation for years.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Canada has weekday delivery (M-F). No Saturday delivery here.
Only get mail couple days a week I think. Not sure as we have community mailbox and only check it maybe once a week - every 10 days unless expecting something.

 

[JamesWinston]

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-f...s-the-u-s-postal-service-governed-and-funded/

6 of one, half dozen of another. They are a government organization. They operate at a many billion dollar loss a year and they are almost 60 billion behind on retirement payments. Where do you think that money comes from? Hi TippyThomas.

 

[Sinder]

The USPS was recently awarded $10 Billion, yes that is a B for BILLION that the government decided they didn't have to pay back.
Not sure if some of you are aware of this or not but the money the government "awards" out isn't from something they produced and sold and made a profit on. It's from us taxpayers
To say the USPS doesn't receive money from taxpayers is false. Taxpayers give the USPS money every year.

 

[kdonnel]

Congress put the post office down the path of failure back in 2006.

Congress could fix it, but for whatever reason, would prefer that the post office fail.

https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/

In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

We get delivery 6 days a week. We have a locking mailbox, so I only grab it 2-3 a week, so I’d be fine if it went down to that.

 

[Moliphino]

Six days. I thought they were going to stop Saturday mail delivery not that long ago, but it never happened.

 

[DVC-Don]

Let em have the weekend off. I get mostly junk mail incoming and pay all bills online anyway.

 

[Travel60]

I could do with 2-3 days a week. We travel a lot and depending on length of trip, either have the mail held at PO or forwarded to us once a week. Very seldom get anything that couldn't wait a day or two (that stuff gets FedEx'd or UPS'd). BUT how much that would save would depend on the cost of separating/filing/storing mail being held.