So how many of you get mail on Saturday? If not what about stopping USPS delivery on Saturdays?

[Couchpotato]

At my expense. I must retrieve it, I must sort it, I must spend time going through it all, then I must dispose of it then pay my township to take it all away.

It amounts to 95-99% of all mail dumped upon me.

It is like a billboard I am forced to read or a TV commercial I am forced to tune into against my will.

I'm sick of mail and I'm sick of it being forced upon me.

Can you write return to sender on all of the junk mail? I've never tried that myself but if enough people did it.....

 

[Couchpotato]

It isn't dark until about 9:30 pm

It doesnt stay light until 930PM except in the summer even in the southern portion of the country.

 

[Couchpotato]

It isn't dark until about 9:30 pm

Key West, FL Sunrise and Sunset Times

Sunrise and sunset in Key West, Florida as well as day length, twilight and solar noon for every day of the year.

sunrise-sunset.org

Sun sets at 5:48 according to this. I kind of doubt it stays light out for 3 hours after the sun sets...

 

[healthmyths]

Amazon wont allow it.....

Amazon accounts for one-third of all Parcel Select deliveries, which is the USPS's last-mile delivery service.

• Newly released documents obtained by American Oversight show that Amazon produced nearly $3.9 billion in revenue and $1.6 billion in profit for the USPS in the fiscal year of 2019.
• USPS delivered 1.54 billion packages for Amazon during that time, or roughly 30% of the technology company's total volume.

Newly released documents show Amazon is a $3.9 billion-per-year customer the Post Office can't afford to lose

Documents obtained by American Oversight show Amazon accounted for $3.9 billion in revenue and $1.6 billion in profit for the Post Office in 2019.

www.businessinsider.com

AGAIN these are packages... not envelopes, which gross revenue is $0.73 per stamp!
Today The price of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp is $0.73 for standard-sized, rectangular envelopes

Postage Rates & Prices | USPS

USPS postage rates offer low-cost mailing and shipping prices for domestic & international customers. See Forever postage stamp prices and other postage rates.

www.usps.com

 

[healthmyths]

Can you write return to sender on all of the junk mail? I've never tried that myself but if enough people did it.....

While there isn't a definitive, publicly available statistic on the exact percentage of junk mail marked "return to sender," most experts agree that the number is very low; essentially negligible due to the fact that writing "return to sender" on junk mail often has little effect on stopping its delivery, as many companies disregard such markings and continue sending mail regardless.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

lol....the guy out on the street delivers what he has just like their guys do....no difference....and they used to ask me if so and so still lived at this address or if a place was vacant...

So? Do you have a point?

 

[Harry Dresden]

It isn't dark until about 9:30 pm

even in the winter?.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

It takes up a lot of my time, and then I must haul it all out to the curb and pay my township to haul all that paper to the landfill.

lol...haul it out to the curb.....what 10-20 pieces?...if that....

 

[toobfreak]

lol...haul it out to the curb.....what 10-20 pieces?...if that....

You're kidding right? I bet I get 10-20 pieces of mail per day. In a week I can fill a shopping bag.

During the election I must have gotten 500 cards and fliers soliciting my vote for candidates.

In a year's time, I bet they go through a whole tree's work of wood shoving crap in my mailbox.

 

[Harry Dresden]

You are right... 45 cents was the last time I bought stamps!
Today The price of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp is $0.73 for standard-sized, rectangular envelopes

Postage Rates & Prices | USPS

USPS postage rates offer low-cost mailing and shipping prices for domestic & international customers. See Forever postage stamp prices and other postage rates.

www.usps.com

NOW if you worked for 33 years explain to me then why this figure that came from
According to recent information, the USPS incurs daily costs exceeding $8 million, with a significant portion attributed to salaries and benefits for its workforce, which can average around $5.8 million per day based on recent data from the Postal Service itself.

GAO questions USPS cost savings on POStPlan, USPS questions GAO's tone - Save the Post Office

The Government Accountability Office has just issued a report about the cost savings the Postal Service may have achieved with POStPlan, the initiative that reduced hours at 13,000 small post offices and eliminated their postmaster positions. As the report makes clear, the plan has not saved...

www.savethepostoffice.com

So simple math that you seem to be ignorant of AS well as doing internet searches as I've done for the FACTS..
52.25 saturdays per year (365.25 days per non-leap year!) times 52.25 days or $303,050,000 per year!
Now another fact for you who should be knowledgeable about this...
First-class mail is the highest revenue-generating mail class for the United States Postal Service (USPS), accounting for 31% of the USPS's 2023 revenue.
However, the volume of first-class mail has been declining, falling 6.1% in the 12 months ending September 30, 2023. This is the lowest volume since 1968.

First-Class Mail Volume Since 1926 - Who we are - About.usps.com

Number of pieces mailed annually since 1926, to the nearest million.

about.usps.com

FACTS not guesses... so again with declining first class mail, why are we wasting money for delivery on Saturdays?

everyone blames the workers who actually touch the mail...now why dont you find out how much middle and upper management make and their benefits and they dont touch the mail and they are the ones who waste the money it makes....and once again stopping sat wont save it 300 million.....they will be spending that on mon-weds paying OT to catch up....

 

[Harry Dresden]

So? Do you have a point?

they dont do any better.....and i can give many examples just on my route were they fucked up....

 

[Jarlaxle]

Prove it! Ever hear of google?

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First-Class Mail Volume Since 1926 - Who we are - About.usps.com

Number of pieces mailed annually since 1926, to the nearest million.

about.usps.com

many people still get bills through the mail...

They should probably step into 2010.

 

[Harry Dresden]

You're kidding right? I bet I get 10-20 pieces of mail per day. In a week I can fill a shopping bag.

During the election I must have gotten 500 cards and fliers soliciting my vote for candidates.

In a year's time, I bet they go through a whole tree's work of wood shoving crap in my mailbox.

then you got your name on someones list.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Took almost 30 seconds.

First-Class Mail Volume Since 1926 - Who we are - About.usps.com

Number of pieces mailed annually since 1926, to the nearest million.

about.usps.com

They should probably step into 2010.

why dont you go and tell them.....i used to tell people waiting for their checks to use direct deposit.....nope they would not do it and then they would give me shit if didnt have it....

 

[toobfreak]

then you got your name on someones list.....

Yeah, the fucking Post Office.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Yeah, the fucking Post Office.

they dont have any lists.....but lots of advertisers do....you are on one or more of them....

 

[Independent thinker]

the PO has nothing to do with the countries debt....its debt is its own.....

That's not really true. Every so often Congress has to vote billions of dollars worth monetary aid to keep the post office afloat.

 

[Harry Dresden]

That's not really true. Every so often Congress has to vote billions of dollars worth monetary aid to keep the post office afloat.

are they part of the countries budget?....

 

[Independent thinker]

are they part of the countries budget?....

Well, if the US government keeps on giving them billions of dollars of taxpayer money every so often to keep them afloat then they apparently are part of the budget. But, budget is a funny term when talking about the US government. If your budget calls for two trillion dollars worth of income coming in and four trillion dollars in expenditures, and charging two trillion dollars per year onto our national debt, that's hardly what you'd call a budget.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Well, if the US government keeps on giving them billions of dollars of taxpayer money every so often to keep them afloat then they apparently are part of the budget. But, budget is a funny term when talking about the US government. If your budget calls for two trillion dollars worth of income coming in and four trillion dollars in expenditures, and charging two trillion dollars per year onto our national debt, that's hardly what you'd call a budget.

so they are not part of the budget and they dont take tax payer money but they can borrow from the treasury of up to 15 billion which they make payments on to pay it back,,,,if they are owned by the govt should they not support it?...