U.S. Postal Service ends Saturday mail delivery

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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Starting Aug. 5, the U.S. Postal Service will discontinue Saturday mail delivery in favor of a Monday-through-Friday schedule at an estimated annual savings of $2 billion. USPS ended fiscal-year 2012 with a $15.9 billion loss. The Postal Service’s strong recent growth in package delivery, supported by e-commerce sales, convinced authorities to keep a six-day delivery schedule for packages. USPS has seen a 14-percent rise in package volumes in the past two years....

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