USPS Strategy To Preserve Small Post Offices - Reduce Hours?

Here's the latest USPS proposal released today that will allegedly preserve all of the small post offices previously scheduled for closing and instead just reduce their hours at an estimated savings of $500,000,000 annually, but would not be fully implemented until September 2014:

http://about.usps.com/news/national...pr12_054.pdf

Sounds like they are "caving" under political pressure, as the overhead to keep these properties open isn't going to save the major dollars they were originally projecting.

I can't understand their refusal to cut Saturday mail.

I don't understand it either, stalizer! It would make so much sense!

I think it has to do with the law(s) that are in place to guarantee mail delivery or some such silly thing to everyone.

Why don't they pass a law to guarantee high-speed internet to everyone too? I mean Finland has.

In one way I do appreciate the idea of communication and shipping services and contact with the rest of the country and world that is available to everyone (mail that is) as that opens up the country and lets you live where you want to. That's great.

If you had to pay for delivery by the mile like in the old days you would have to be a pioneer spirit to go out there beyond the edge of civilization and have a life. Not everyone would want to do that.

But with infrastructure (roads / railways and communications (mail / internet now) you are not so cut off.

It is just the idea of having delivery available every day almost that is unrealistic perhaps.

Right now here in Halifax, NS, (300,000 hardly souls) I have delivery 3 days a week. I still get my mail, just not every day.

Different, I know, if you have important medical supplies or other time-sensitive materiel being delivered. But that is what couriers are for too.

It would be nice to have a Plan B or access to such planning to start with too. If the mail is not available then use xxxx and it would be OK.

I want mail every day too. I want nice cancels on every piece of mail too. I want nice stamps from everyone too.

Maybe more people would collect stamps if they actually saw some.

You guys have it great down there. But it seems I have to learn to appreciate what I have while I have it.

Excuse me while I go and address some more mail to myself so I can get some nice stamps and maybe cancels too and keep our Postal system going.