When (The US Post Office) Delivered Multiple Times A Day

An interesting "Answer Man" response to a question about the time the US Post Office delivered mail multiple times a day:

http://www.bnd.com/2013/02/19/25018...service.html

Although I knew several of these points from earlier research on the subject, I was surprised to learn that:

1. Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely petitioned the president to stop delivery on Sunday in 1830s. But it apparently remained until Aug. 24, 1912, when President William Taft signed a law closing all post offices on Sunday.

2. In Loma Linda, Calif., where most people are Seventh-day Adventists who worship on Saturday, the post office delivered on Sunday instead of Saturday until April 17, 2011. Sunday deliveries reportedly go on in Angwin, Calif., and Collegedale, Tenn., two small college towns where private post offices are owned by the church, according to the Postal Service.

I never knew that it was still possible for "private post offices" to be owned by a church. Are these the only locations where such arrangements exist?

3. Mail delivery was stopped nationwide on Saturdays in April 1957 -- for one weekend. The protest was so overwhelming that Congress restored it two days later.

Certainly some interesting postal trivia here.

Hi,
As I recall, we occasionally got two deliveries a day during Christmas time when I was a kid in Chicago (1950s). I can't swear to it, but I do recall the volume of mail was significant then, and warranted it.

I, too, remember Xmas deliveries twice daily in Chicago.

At the other end of the spectrum was/is? Bisbee Arizona which I believe was the largest city in the US with no residential delivery. There were just too many doggone steps to navigate to safely get the mail to the houses. At least that was my recollection. I lived there as a kid from 1957-1960.

I remember getting two deliveries a day as late as 1963. That was only for a couple of days around Christmas, but it was in a fairly insignificant town in western Massachusetts, not in a city. I can't recall exactly when the extra deliveries stopped.