USPS Home Mail Delivery: How Many Days A Week?

[Disneybuckeye]

2-3 days a week is fine with me. I think 6 days is a waste. We don't event pick it up a lot of days. I come home from the gym after working our for and hour and half but am too lazy to walk the 30 yards to the mailbox for junk.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

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?

I'd be ok with them delivering 2-3x a week. If they split each county into 3 areas, they could do area A on Mon/Thurs, area B on Tues/Fri, area C Wed/Sat.; or for 3 day, they could split counties into 2, and do A on Mon/Wed/Fri, and B Tues/Thurs/Sat.

 

[RangerPooh]

Most of the mail we receive is junk, but do receive some bills (looking primarily at your medical bills...) in the mail. I could probably be fine with mail delivery M-F. I'd be more open to this if they were to install a neighborhood mail drop box (those blue mail boxes) in my neighborhood. I do not know of any in my town. In fact, we do not have a post office, so if we need to mail something we either drive to the next town over (any direction ~15 minutes by car) or go to the UPS store and pay higher prices. This in itself is frustrating, especially when the mail person does not come by when I have outgoing mail. I can't even mail something from work as the mail center on campus closed in 2019, and there are no post offices in the vicinity of where I work.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

Our mail service was bad before the pandemic. Since Covid, we get mail about 3 times/week, maybe 4 if we're lucky. I live in an association, several blocks from me is a home with the same numbers as mine but different street name. She gets our mail a lot and vice versa. Some of our bills are arriving late and past due, but the companies don't care. A couple of cities over, a post office has had so many complaints about opened mail that an investigation has been started. People complaining that cards being opened and gift cards, money and checks being taken out. I sent my sister a Valentine's Day card and she said it was opened. Thankfully I didn't put anything in it. A couple of weeks ago, a bunch of mail was found dumped in the woods. A lady walking by saw it, gathered it up and bought to post office. Found out it was the mailman who did it. I heard that among other reasons but the main reason of their financial woes is the money put towards employees pensions. It wouldn't bother me to get mail 3 days a week of 6 days a week, as long as I get my mail and it's not opened.

 

[WhatDinosaur]

The USPS does not receive any taxpayer dollars.

But they’re required by law to pre-fund pensions 75 years out. Since the retirement age for USPS employees is well below that, they’re actually pre-funding pensions for employees who haven’t even been born yet.

 

[tvguy]

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.

Allegedly all that junk mail is the only reason they aren't losing more money and why stamp prices aren't higher. I get sale flyers everyday, my mailbox would be overflowing if they didn't deliver 6 days a week. One of the things that was interesting when I retired was the difference between financial institutions on rolling retirement money out. Half would do it it electronically, half would only send you a check in the mail.

 

[RangerPooh]

Our mail service was bad before the pandemic. Since Covid, we get mail about 3 times/week, maybe 4 if we're lucky. I live in an association, several blocks from me is a home with the same numbers as mine but different street name. She gets our mail a lot and vice versa. Some of our bills are arriving late and past due, but the companies don't care.

At our last home we were in a situation like that. A house on the next street also started with a G and had the same address number. But the streets were clearly different names, didn't even sound alike. Didn't matter. USPS, UPS, Fed Ex. They all delivered our stuff there at least once a month. Thankfully the resident at the other house was great about bringing it over or holding it for us. But could have been worse. Especially when an expensive X-mas present went missing...but that was Fed Ex and they were having major issues with employee theft at the local hub.

 

[HopperFan]

For years I've said they need to reduce delivery days and it would save SO MUCH MONEY. Of course we are all supposed to get six days but since the new Postmaster took over our service has dropped to about 3-4 days with mail. Often a couple days are ALL junk mail and the real mail comes the other days. What this tells me is the post office is only sorting our real mail a couple days a week. M/W/F or T/TH/S would greatly reduce delivery costs.

The new information also said that the plans in place DO NOTHING to improve delivery service, which has been another issue with the new postmaster. It was already struggling and instead of improving it has been gotten worse. As someone with a small business who depends on USPS, I've had so many issues, and forget Thanksgiving to New Years, any delivery promise are out the door. ALSO while most my mail has insurance on it, USPS will use all energy to not pay claims even though they are clearly at fault. They ignore you or say no .... and where does one turn to appeal? No where.

I'm old enough to remember when getting a job at the USPS was so hard. Exams, wait lists, having to know someone. Now no one wants to work there (hiring sign everywhere) and at least at my PO the ones who do are 80% nasty, rude and even don't hesitate to literally scream at customers in the lobby. They barely do their jobs and it's so frustrating.

We need a complete overhaul of the system from the top down or it will continue to spiral until we have nothing.

 

[Pinnochio]

Monday/Wednesday/Friday works for me.....

 

[easyas123]

Personally I'd be fine with 2 or 3 days a week. Professionally we get a lot of mail on a daily basis so that would be fun....

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'm not sure how I could even answer that question. I mean I want my mail delivered to me as it comes. I don't know what comes in the mail (I'm meaning timing of things not talking about informed delivery) so why would I want to arbitrarily decide I want to wait to get mail?

If it's something I requested (like most recently my husband requested a replacement social security card) no way would I be like "sure fine don't delivery for a few extra days".

Then there's time sensitive things like we just got mail-in ballots for a bond question on for our school district, I don't want that just sitting there in a pile waiting to be delivered just because of a lower amount of days on delivery.

So I'd change nothing

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

For years I've said they need to reduce delivery days and it would save SO MUCH MONEY. Of course we are all supposed to get six days but since the new Postmaster took over our service has dropped to about 3-4 days with mail. Often a couple days are ALL junk mail and the real mail comes the other days. What this tells me is the post office is only sorting our real mail a couple days a week. M/W/F or T/TH/S would greatly reduce delivery costs.

The new information also said that the plans in place DO NOTHING to improve delivery service, which has been another issue with the new postmaster. It was already struggling and instead of improving it has been gotten worse. As someone with a small business who depends on USPS, I've had so many issues, and forget Thanksgiving to New Years, any delivery promise are out the door. ALSO while most my mail has insurance on it, USPS will use all energy to not pay claims even though they are clearly at fault. They ignore you or say no .... and where does one turn to appeal? No where.

I'm old enough to remember when getting a job at the USPS was so hard. Exams, wait lists, having to know someone. Now no one wants to work there (hiring sign everywhere) and at least at my PO the ones who do are 80% nasty, rude and even don't hesitate to literally scream at customers in the lobby. They barely do their jobs and it's so frustrating.

We need a complete overhaul of the system from the top down or it will continue to spiral until we have nothing.

While mail can and has been slowed down that shouldn't mean you personally are getting delivered things in chunks like that as if they are purposefully sorting junk mail to be delivered X day and mail you'd actually want another day. We still get mail just about all 6 days, from utility bills to netflix DVDs, insurance documents, work documents (like insurance cards, health insurance plan info), to tax information, to grocery store newspaper flies, to magazines (I have a subscription to a local one and then my mother-in-law did a subscription for another one to me that she chose they get delivered different days) etc. Junk mail depends but is often delivered every day. Same when it's election time.

I think some of it is individual post office decisions. Sounds like that's what's happening with yours but def. isn't happening with mine.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Fewer than now would be fine, maybe 2 0r 3 days a week.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

We have a post office box and seldom do I bother picking it up everyday. I’d be fine with 2 or 3 days a week.

 

[disneychrista]

I could see them reducing/removing Saturday delivery. We get mail most days but the majority of it is junk. I would be okay with 3 days per week.

 

[GAN]

One day a week would be fine for me ...that's all I check it anyway. I might mail a payment 4 times a year if that and any bills come through my email.

 

[mom2rtk]

While mail can and has been slowed down that shouldn't mean you personally are getting delivered things in chunks like that as if they are purposefully sorting junk mail to be delivered X day and mail you'd actually want another day. We still get mail just about all 6 days, from utility bills to netflix DVDs, insurance documents, work documents (like insurance cards, health insurance plan info), to tax information, to grocery store newspaper flies, to magazines (I have a subscription to a local one and then my mother-in-law did a subscription for another one to me that she chose they get delivered different days) etc. Junk mail depends but is often delivered every day. Same when it's election time.

I think some of it is individual post office decisions. Sounds like that's what's happening with yours but def. isn't happening with mine.

Me either. We get mail 6 days a week.

I pay a lot for the things I mail. I would not be happy with them sitting for days. Sometimes my daughter needs something at school and it’s slow enough getting there. Leave it alone. It’s slow enough already.

 

[RedAngie]

Twice a week would be fine for me.

I remember when large cities had twice daily delivery.

 

[focusondisney]

But they’re required by law to pre-fund pensions 75 years out. Since the retirement age for USPS employees is well below that, they’re actually pre-funding pensions for employees who haven’t even been born yet.

Exactly. This is when all the PO troubles started. No other government agency or company could survive that requirement either. Fix that and you fix the problems. And to answer the OP, I want my mail 6 days a week.