US Consumers Planning Ways to Get Around No Saturday Mail Service
Written on March 19, 2010 – 1:43 am | by admin
Consumers in the United States have been angered recently by the discovery that the US Postal Service (USPS) has been looking at ways to cut costs and one of the solutions that is being looked at is the elimination of mail delivery for Saturdays, reducing USPS mail delivery to a 5 day week. The problem comes due to the fact that more and more consumers are doing business by mail with online retailers so the service has become even more important than at any point in the past. This development in the way people are shopping today means that the core delivery systems of products to consumers have become even more crucial to the economy in modern times when much of the overall business is now being done online. Consumers have been working to find ways around this potential problem should the USPS embrace this cost cutting solution and one of the ways is by getting a post office box. Those with a PO box will still be able to receive their mail deliveries on Saturdays since the system would only cease home deliveries and not mail processing itself.
A large assortment of unions and political groups are standing up in opposition to the proposal on the behalf of US consumers, but the measure may actually happen yet. New ways to obtain movies and other products such as video game rentals can be circumvented by streaming digital products so if this goes in to effect there will still be some alternatives available.