We want to know: How will the Post Office's latest announcement affect you and your business?
The U.S. Postal Service Wednesday morning announced it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1. The current six-days-per-week mail delivery business model is “no longer sustainable,” according to the U.S. Postal Service. Continued economic struggles and the increasing use of the Internet for communications and bill paying by consumers are among the key factors that lead to the decision. Saturday is also the lightest mail day of the week. “We must change in order to remain an integral part of the American community for decades to come,” reads a message on the U.S. Postal Service website. The majority American’s don’t seem to mind whether they get Saturday mail delivered or not. A Rasmussen poll on mail delivery in 2012 showed “…
Is there a solution to the declining revenues of the U.S. Postal Service. Is it an agency that still is viable?
People tend to have strong opinions of the post office, or more properly, the United States Postal Service. From crabby clerks in the post offices themselves, to the love expressed for the individual letter carrier, there are strong feelings for the agency called on to carry the nation's mail. There has been discussion of dropping one day of mail delivery as the Postal Service struggles to cope with declining revenue from the services it provides. Email has all but replaced regular letter writing, leading fewer people to buy postage stamps, which always seem to inch up in price. There has even been talk locally of closing post offices such as the one in Maplewood. Missouri U.S. Sens. Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill have sponsored …
Patch checked with city government, Social Security, hospitals, and other agencies.
Congressional leaders and President Obama have until the clock strikes midnight Friday to finish negotiations on an agreement to fund the federal government without a shutdown. Patch wanted to get a sense for what that really means in Creve Coeur. Here's what we've learned: "We've been watching carefully," Governor Jay Nixon told a Wentzville Patch reporter after a Friday afternoon press conference at the city's Water Reclamation Center. "Our hope is that they can get an arrangement worked out." The State of Missouri has a two-week contingency plan in place in the event of a federal shutdown. "We're well prepared and have a plan to keep the services that Missouri citizens need," Nixon said. The shutdown would only begin to affect Missouri …
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Jennifer R Kohl
7:58 am on Sunday, May 12, 2013
What about the elderly that still rely on the post office to deliver their bills and pay them because they don't have the means or knowledge that isneeded to payonline or phone. Alot of older people still do not give out their SSI number over the phone let alone payment info. I really believe it should stay the same. We all count on our post men and women so please don't take thatawayfrom the … more ›