Saturday Mail Delivery to End, Postal Service Announces
The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. We asked Hasbrouck Heights residents how the change will affect them.
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 to five days would only affect first-class mail. Packages, mail-order medicines, priority and express mail would still be delivered on Saturdays, and local post offices like Hasbrouck Heights' Boulevard office will remain open for business Saturdays. According to the U.S. Postal Service, the reasons are continued economic struggles and the increasing use of the Internet for communications and bill paying by consumers. The U.S. Postal Service is also the only federal agency required to pre-fund health benefits for retirees, and those…
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