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Postal Service to file five-day-delivery proposal

Postal Service to file five-day-delivery proposal

The U.S. Postal Service would cut Saturday mail delivery starting in the first half of 2011 under a plan the agency will give its regulator tomorrow.

 

Greene: Say goodbye to Saturday mail?

Greene:  Say goodbye to Saturday mail?

On this sultry weekend in the middle of August, take a look at what's on your kitchen counter. The Postal Service says it will lose approximately $7 billion this fiscal year. Americans have mailed 20 billion fewer items this year than they did last year. Over the past 20 years, some 200,000 mail-collection boxes have been removed from U.S. streets because not enough people were dropping their letters into them. The Government Accountability Office has officially declared the Postal Service to be a high-risk agency.

 

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