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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
I don't think it'd be a bad thing to cut out Saturday delivery if it means keeping prices down. Most businesses are closed and there isn't much you can do on a Saturday with your mail anyways (can't cash checks, etc). If it means paying less for postage, I'd be for it.
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Where the fuck do you live that you cant cash checks on Saturday? Hell, I can cash them at the stores on Sunday, but most banks have at least one branch thats open for a little bit on Saturday. And a few banks have branches inside Wal-Marts and stuff that are even open on Sundays.
And it wont keep postage prices down. They just want to cut that day out of the work week and then in a couple of years later they'll have some other crisis that they'll claim justifies a rate increase. And now that Bush put a new law in that provides even less oversight on rate increases, they'd have no problem getting it through.
What they need to do is close some of the unneeded branch offices. There are two post offices in this tiny little town of Norman, OK (Suburb of OKC) alone and that doesn't even count the post offices in stores and such. It takes a whole 15 min to drive from one end of this town to the other, it doesn't need two fucking post offices. This same story is repeated all across the country, post offices way out in the middle of nowhere when there is one in the next bigger town over less than 15 min away. And people always like to bitch about the drive, well, thats what happens when you decided to live in the middle of nowhere, you have to drive a little ways to town to go do stuff. If you don't like that, move to the city or shut the fuck up.
Also, the post office needs to be forced to stop sponsoring stuff like Tour de France and wasting money on TV advertising. You don't see the welfare office advertising on TV, thats because everyone knows its there. The same applies with the post office. There is only one way to send a letter in this country and even the dumbest of us know where to go and how to do it.