Each week I participate in the Mailbox Monday meme where people share what books came into their house that week. Sometimes the books really do arrive in the mailbox.
Last year I recall the US Postal Service talked about eliminating home delivery on Tuesday as it was the least busy day for them. Now there is talk of eliminating Saturday delivery while the offices would remain open. An independent advisor suggested they cut home deliveries to Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This would decrease their overhead costs and increase their revenue due to the increase in people renting post office boxes. I imagine business deliveries would remain the same but I don’t remember reading anything about it.
Books arrive at my house from various services. If they cut Saturday deliveries I am not sure how if it will have much impact to me personally. I imagine I would start to get Saturdays and Sundays mixed up but that is about it. If the residential deliveries were cut down to three days a week I imagine it would require a little more work involved in getting my outgoing mail to a post office for delivery. A lot of the writing markets I submit to prefer electronic deliveries.
Right now I send nearly all of my packages through the post office. I would have to be a bit more organized to make sure my deliveries made it in time for birthdays or other special occasions. As it is, I have a hard time remembering it takes 10 days for a letter or post card to get to Alberta, Canada from Ohio. On the plus side, some days I get so little mail I wonder if the mail carrier came by and this might make every day a good mail day!
How do you imagine a cut back in US mail delivery would impact you?
I’m not in the US but that sounds crazy. First of all I’ve never had weekend delivery. So that’s weird to me. But I’d be upset if they tried to take away one of the days of the week. Then if you are waiting for something in the mail (like a cheque) you might be waiting even longer than you should. I would be very unhappy.