Post Office

Updated on September 28, 2011
J.W. asks from Saint Louis, MO
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So there are a mess of postal workers protesting because they say they could be solvent if they can use their pension over payment towards their health care prepayment. Ignoring all the talk to could go on that they don't want Congress to remove Saturday delivery.

So here is the question, how many days would the post office have to deliver to meet your needs?

For me it would be once a week. I really don't pine away for my junk mail but I don't feel like getting a larger mail box so a week it is. :(

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So What Happened?

They are only talking about removing Saturday delivery, it has no bearing on the office hours.

If they are only picking up one day a week mail is only entering the system one day a week. There shouldn't be any storage issues.

Just like it shouldn't effect storage it shouldn't effect business. I know we get payments in every day, most of our payments are made online or our collectors having to get people to actually pay their bill. Even if we got mail once a week it is the same amount of mail we would get every week. We just wouldn't get it all the payments posted in one day. As it is now we don't always get them posted in one day.

Besides who is to say they can't convert some post offices into bulk post office boxes for commercial businesses.

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B.M.

answers from Dallas on

For me personally once a week would be fine. Ive set to receive most of my bills paperless and they are paid online, so most of my mail is junk anyway.

My work however is a different story. It would greatly affect cash flow and processing of invoices to not receive regularly. I think you'll get very different answers on this question from residential vs. Businesses.

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R.B.

answers from La Crosse on

They only offer post office boxes in our town. No carriers. I get my mail once a week.... on the week I know no bills come in and its just junk mail.. I skip that week.

Im sure it would mess up business' that use it daily though.

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R.R.

answers from Los Angeles on

I was talking to someone who works for the post office, and we agreed that Monday/Tuesday and Thursday/Friday would be a good compromise if they have to cut days. But I could live with Monday/Wednesday/Friday...I mail a lot of things.

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M.E.

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Monday, Wednesday, Friday would be fine.

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L.K.

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I kinda agree with you J., once or twice a week would be good. We do almost all of our bill paying electronically so 75%+ of what we get anyway is junk.
And I have honestly tried to get off the catalogue merry-go-round all ways possible, so it wouldn't break my heart if they just didn't fit into my box! ;)

Is putting something in the mailbox convenient? Sure. But I'm out and about enough and we happen to have a major hub within 5-7 miles of our house that really isn't out of the way.

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J.H.

answers from San Antonio on

We have those giant mail boxes with the entire block's mail boxes in it at the end of the street. (I hope that makes sense. I'm heavily medicated, lol.)

Anyway, I've been being lazy and only getting the mail once a week. (Sometimes less depending on how I feel.)

My point is, I could go once a week with mail service.

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K.J.

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Once a week. Maybe if the frequency is reduced junk mailings will slow or cease! I hate them! I get maybe 3 legitimate pieces of mail a week. The rest is just various forms of advertising.

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T.N.

answers from Albany on

I think Monday, Wednesday, Friday would be good.

:)

Course then we'd have MORE layoffs, sigh.

:(

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T.F.

answers from Dallas on

I am torn on that one because we run our business from home and we have customers who pay by check with is mailed.

Bottom line, it would slow our cash flow but probably not be too detrimental. I can see where some companies would play the postal game to make sure their payments were delayed a bit. You know who I am talking about...... those customers who do pay their bills but mail after 5 on the day before it is due halfway across the country, "forget" to sign the check, etc.

I could live with 3 days a week.

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L.M.

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I would want to receive my mail at least twice a week. However, for my employer mail is needed daily. I think one major thing you need to take into consideration is where would all the mail that would only get delivered one to three times a week be stored?

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M.C.

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We have mail that goes out probably 4x a week, spanning all 6 delivery days. Varies per week/ bill deadline. Saturday is actually a busy day for us since we get paid on Friday and send out the payments between Friday and Monday.

For me getting to a post office isn't a problem because I work near one, but for non-mobile people like some of my family members, they rely heavily on the mailman coming to them.

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✿.K.

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I go twice a week. I think getting rid of Saturday's is a bad idea some people work all week and can only go Saturday's.

Yeah but if there aren't any employees there on Saturday (just the lobby open) then you can't get any packages you might have.

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E.M.

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I think it should be rolling.

1/2 the mail boxes get delivered/picked up m/w/f, the other half tu/th/sat. All post offices would keep the same hours as they do now. If you still wanted to get mail daily I think po boxes in actual post offices could be an option.

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C.P.

answers from Columbia on

I'd be happy with three days a week delivery, so long as I could still drop my Netflix discs in a big blue mailbox every day between!

I pay most of my bills online, so Netflix is pretty much all I look for in the mailbox!

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