Residential Mail - Do You Need Saturday Delivery?

[MossRoad]

No, I don't need Saturday mail.

Hey! No fair just answering the question!!! :laughing:

 

[dgl24087]

The only monetary savings from no delivery on Saturday will be from not having to pay the letter carriers and not staffing of many Post Offices. Mail sorting and distribution centers will still operate, main Post Offices will still have counter people, and contract haulers will still have to haul the mail to the outlying post offices. We will just work half days on Saturdays, hauling the mail out and returning empty. My six hour Saturday run becomes a 4 to 4.5 hour run.

 

[Bird]

Don, my paternal grandfather was a contract mail hauler, but there's probably no way in this day and age you could get anyone to take the kind of job he had. He started in 1942-43 hauling the mail between the Post Office and the train station in Ardmore, OK. He built his own flatbed on a half ton pickup, sideboards on the right side, front and rear, but none on the driver's side, so the bed was the same height as the floor of the railroad mail cars. He would go to the Post Office, get the outgoing mail, drive to the train station (a distance of about 3 city blocks), be there when the train arrived, drive alongside the mail car, swap the outgoing mail for the incoming mail, haul the incoming mail back to the Post Office, unload it and take it in, and go home until time for the next train.

He had that job until trains quit hauling mail. The thing that was unusual about it was that there used to be 8 trains a day passing through Ardmore during the day and night, and he was there with the mail to meet every one of them; he even got up twice during the night to go meet the train. So he had a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week, job. In 1950, he bought a new truck and took a vacation and drove to California, so the local newspaper ran a story about him having never missed a train or taken a day off in the past 7 years.

 

[MossRoad]

The only monetary savings from no delivery on Saturday will be from not having to pay the letter carriers and not staffing of many Post Offices. Mail sorting and distribution centers will still operate, main Post Offices will still have counter people, and contract haulers will still have to haul the mail to the outlying post offices. We will just work half days on Saturdays, hauling the mail out and returning empty. My six hour Saturday run becomes a 4 to 4.5 hour run.

Not if they tell everyone to go home.