Ending Saturday mail delivery would save the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service, which lost $8.5 billion in 2010, lots of money. But how much money, exactly? Enough to make a difference and stop the bleeding? The answer depends on who you ask.
The Postal Service also says stopping Saturday mail, an idea that has been floated several times, and moving to five-day delivery would save the agency $3.1 billion.
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To emphasize, the Postal Service does not take this change lightly and would not propose it if six-day service could be supported by current volumes,” additionally the agency wrote. “However, there is no longer enough mail to sustain six days of delivery. Ten years ago the average household received five pieces of mail every day. Today it receives four pieces, and by 2020 that number will fall as much as to three. read more.