The postal service is once again thinking of eliminating Saturday mail delivery in an effort to stop it's massive losses. I question how this will help if the major problem is paying for employees medical insurance. It may eliminate a day's wages but unless it cuts many to part time, it will have little effect on the cost of health insurance, right?
Instead of making more people under employed (if that's what it will do), why not charge more for junk mail? Junk mail is still big business for the companies that send it. Up the cost a little and make a bigger profit from it. Also, what happened to the days when postal employees walked their entire route? Have them walk instead of dragging their vehicle along with them (parking it every few blocks as many do now) and they won't need a health club membership.
I think business people will see no Saturday delivery as nothing more than a reason to use other methods of delivery be it electronic or private carrier. In a world of "Want it NOW" waiting an extra day is not an option for success.
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