Saturday Mail Delivery to End, Postal Service Announces
Studies show one in four would prefer mail delivery to go down to five days a week.
Calling the six-days-per-week mail delivery business model “no longer sustainable,” the U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1. The plan to change delivery from six days a week to five would only affect first-class mail. Packages, mail-order medicines, priority and express mail would still be delivered on Saturdays, and local post offices will remain open for business Saturdays. In 2011, the USPS closed hundreds of branches nationwide, a move the Holmdel and Hazlet Post Offices survived. Also in 2011, Hazlet letter carriers were transferred to the Matawan Post Office in an effort to improve efficiencies. Last May, the Hazlet Post Office renewed its lease for five years with an option …
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