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Start delivering mail only two or three days a week. That's all anyone reall needs. If nothing else cut out Satirday at least. And charge whatever you need to. It's not like mail is some kind of necisoty that needs to be kept cheap.

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Mail needs to be delivered daily (preferably seven days a week). Economic transaction efficiency depends on the mail. Many invoices, payments, legal documents etc are still sent through the mail (even though they should be electronic).

The banks don't process any of my payments on the weekends, so bills and invoices don't matter if they arrive on the weekends.

Saturday and Sunday thus are not required.

As for legal documents, those are all based on the standard work week as well, so that argument falls as well.

As such there is no reason for mail to be delivered on Saturday or Sunday. At the company I work at we get mail on Saturday, we don't get to read it until Monday anyway.

> As for legal documents, those are all based on the standard work week as well, so that argument falls as well.

No, it doesn't. Quite a few legal documents are signed on Saturdays and then overnighted back so that the sender can have it back by Monday.

The USPS could offer a way of electronically delivering mail to them which could be sent over the internet then printed (by the USPS) at the nearest sorting center. Who says things that need to be on paper have to start out that way?

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