Comments on: USPS Looking To Cease Saturday Mail Delivery http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/01/29/usps-looking-to-cease-saturday-mail-delivery/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ex-Mailman http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/01/29/usps-looking-to-cease-saturday-mail-delivery/#comment-63089 Ex-Mailman Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:47:58 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=3785#comment-63089 TerryP: Full-time salaried Postal employees are paid on a 40-hours-per-week basis. That’s 5 days at 8 hours per (OT after that). On the Carrier side, that 6th delivery day is handled by a rotating employee. With 5 day delivery, no need for that “floater” (usually one for every 5 mail routes). Unions will likely be unhappy, but more because it will lighten the workforce. And you are right, no 6th day delivery will also greatly reduce overhead other than labor.

But please don’t take my otherwise non-critical comment as an endorsement of the idea that the USPS has some sort of “secret agenda” to pry money out of Congress…

]]> By: TerryP http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/01/29/usps-looking-to-cease-saturday-mail-delivery/#comment-63082 TerryP Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:59:11 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=3785#comment-63082 My guess is that even if they dropped a day they would still pay their salaried employees as if they were working those days. The union will not give in very easy on pay. The only savings will likely be on fuel and some non-salaried labor.

]]> By: Quincy http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/01/29/usps-looking-to-cease-saturday-mail-delivery/#comment-63076 Quincy Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:44:08 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=3785#comment-63076 One less day I have to sort through junk mail. Sweet.

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