A lot of letter carriers will be affected by this. And this is just the beginning. Trust me, I work for the USPS

I would not miss Saturday's mail..if fact, it it was delivered 3x's a week would be enough for me. I hear they are having financial troubles, but then I wonder why they have so many commericals on TV about flat rate boxes. I suspect they cost lots of money to air!

It is unfortunate that a lot of letter carries would be affected, however the survival for the Postal Service is at stake. I would not miss Saturday delivery.

Trust me, the real problem is management and their excessive, overblown salaries. Also their inability to efficiently run things. Doing things right the first time can eliminate paying two people to do the same thing. Also, there are a lot of jobs that are just "fluffers". Trim the fat, and work efficiently.

The package business is our new focus. You can't electronically send a package like people do with bills.

We wouldn't miss Saturday mail delivery one bit. And its very green.

If you had to pay for Sunday mail delivery, how much would you pay? Compare that to how much it would cost. Don't forget all those extra fossil fuels that we'd be burning. The same figures would roughly apply to Saturday mail delivery.

The only people who will miss Saturday mail delivery are the postal workers. Trust me.

Another "business" destroyed by unions.........

Cut Saturday mail but continue to pay the workers the same inflated salaries and ridiculous pensions.

Only 5 days of junk mail instead of 6 days.

Fyi, where I work, and in the department I work in.... on the day shift alone, we have 3 managers making $90K plus, and 3 supervisors making $80K plus. Managers supervise the supervisors. Supervisors supervise the "union" employees. Wasteful, no???

I remember when the post office delivered twice a day...

In Hamilton and Wenham we have three post offices within a mile of each other. That's two too many.

It's not the unions or mgt's fault, it is about technology and changing habits and business practices. Sat should have been done away with for third-class and junk years ago. They only thing I get in the mail I care about are a few bills and stuff I order from Amazon or other online retailers. Sadly, most catalogs are a complete waste of paper and money. They go right into the recycling bin.

Time marches on...

They will stop the mail delivery and that is a good thing economically for the post office but there is a drawback to doing it. The post office will deliver drug mailings on saturday as in any other day. That will give the JUNKIES the opportunity to steal the elderly medications from the mail boxes for there own use or to sell. Its bad enough to depend on medications to be healthy and to stay alive with out JUNKIES stealing them. There should be no receiving of drug mailings on saturdays to avoid the theft . They should be in the mail box with the regular mail during the week. Why let the JUNKIES know who and when the medications are in someones mail box by just following the mail carrier around on a saturday. If you agree with my thoughts here make them known to the US Postal Service and all you talk to .

The damage to the USPS is irreversable in my opinion. Presently UPS and Fedex give them work that those 2 companies don't want. They will never be a competitor in the package delivery market. They are waisting millions on commercials as they continue to announce increased stamp prices. Stopping Saturday delivery is like puting a bandaid on a bullet wound without removing the bullet. The time is right to get the government out of the mail business. The Salem PO recently had a million-plus renovation and the second floor is empty. Why can't they see the obvious? Years ago all my bills got a stamp and went to the post office,today I send almost nothing through the post office. Even our own government is reluctent to bail out the post office in any way and rightfully so.If I am not using the post office why should my tax dollars be used to continue to support a money loosing operation? One last thing,they sub out work on vehicles to Pep Boys in Salem at OUTRAGEUS prices.Have you ever had work done at Pep Boys? They are awful.

The mail service is terrible. We never get our own mail - We get everyone elses and have no idea where ours end up. I hardly ever use the USPS anymore because of their inefficiency. The last time we mailed from the Peabody post office was to mail our Christmas Cards, which our grandchildren, who also live in Peabody, never received! We won't miss it all! They did themselves in.

Every time this has come up, the SEIU was able to work the back halls of Congress and get it squashed.

I guess times have changed...

SEIU?? Are you slow? They have NOTHING to do woth the post office.

Mail service has many layers. We have old, outdated machinery which puts the mail in the wrong sequence. Then you have casual employees/non-career employees who just throw whatever they have in the mailbox. And even with regular, career employees, they do the best they can to weed out "bad mail" while they are delivering. Don't judge or assume to know where the problems lie when you don't work for the company. It's comparable to Monday-morning quarterbacking. Coulda, woulda, shoulda.

@ John, where were you when I got called worse by that same poster??!! Your input is only seen for some people's defense, it appears.

And a simple explanation would not have sufficed when you are dealing with someone who can't grasp common sense.

No

Congress in 2006 legislated to put the USPS in the red.

National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando: "The problem lies elsewhere: the 2006 congressional mandate that the USPS pre-fund future retiree health benefits for the next 75 years, and do so within a decade, an obligation no other public agency or private firm faces. The roughly $5.5 billion annual payments since 2007 — $21 billion total — are the difference between a positive and negative ledger."

They promise no layoffs? This whole story is bull.

I don't need mail on Saturdays.

I would think that part of the problem is that you can retire in 20 years. So someone goes to work there at age 18, retires at 38 then they have to pay their retirement for for 50+ years. The rest of us shmucks have to work 45 - 50 years to put together a retirement.

I would miss Saturday. But you could do away with Wed and Thurs...I don't really have time to read the mail midweek anyways.

The requirement of the USPS to fully fund its pension fund far into the future is a problem. I also have a family member who retired from the post office at 55 with a lifetime pension. Great for her, not so great for the post office though.

Will I miss Saturday delivery? No, once or twice a week is more than sufficient delivery for junk mail and bills!

There is already a problem with mail in swampscott most days I don't even get it!!!!!! If your paycheck was due in the mail Saturday would you agree with stopping it ? Think of the mail carriers taking a cut in pay!!!' Fire some cops that do nothing!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe small towns would benifit from that. Fund more cash for jobs that are needed!

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Yeah I'll miss it

The real problem with the post office is the fact that they are required by our government to pay retirees medical costs 25 YEARS in advance. This would crush ANY business, and is especially bad for the mismanaged Postal Service. Its sad that a lot of good people will be affected, and one day this profession will be gone.

My husband has been a rural letter carrier for 23 years. We agree..........CLOSE THE POST OFFICE ON SATURDAYS!!!!!!!!! Plain and simple the USPS is the most poorly run agency we've ever seen. They have supervisors that worry about coming in time but not about major issues that matter. They cheat during the mail counts. They harass the employees for no good reason (being 30 seconds late, calling in sick when they're sick, listening to radios when they case their mail, answering a phone call when their child is sick, etc.........the list goes on and on as you can imagine). They get paid hefty salaries to harass employees, not supervise. I've conducted my own survey for about a year now. On Saturdays (when I actually remember to check my mail) we get one, maybe two pieces of mail. It's always junk mail. They could save billions of dollars a year by closing the USPS. DO IT!!!!!!!!

Rural letter carriers can't retire after 20 years. I wish they could so my husband could get out of the USPS!!!!