Can someone explain why we need six day a week mail delivery?

The head of the Postal Service went before Congress today to ask for permission to eliminate Saturday delivery of mail. It seems that they lost $2.8 billion last year and are facing larger losses this year due to the recession. Eliminating Saturday delivery would save $3.5 billion a year. Do it now!

Actually if they want to cut back to three days a week it’s fine by me. Most of what lands in my mailbox is a nuisance. With fewer delivery days they might actually dissuade some of these users from flooding all of us with junk.

Actually, it might drive them back to newspaper advertising which wouldn’t be all bad or even better lead to more advertising on the Web. Would love to see those Ad Sense rates go up.

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