• Zardoz

    Netflix has vested interest in slowing down the mail. The slower the mail, the less films they send out… for the same price. So they save an easy %15 without doing anything. Amazon has a vested interest in having deliveries asap for obvious customer service reasons. This is a no brainer.

  • O.o

    they should drop 1/2 the delivery days… mon wed and fri for ‘area 1′ and tue thu sat for ‘area 2′. I htink most people can wait a single day to get their mail, and if not… maybe they can pick it up at the post office

  • http://www.pitneyworks.co.uk/ Franking Machines

    It is sad that US postal service has come down to this. Never in my nightmare did I think that the services will suffer as brutally as it is. However, there are so many other businesses that rely on them for their Saturday deliveries and I guess that is the reason why they have attended the discussion for exemption of Saturday deliveries. If it weren’t their concern they hardly would be standing up for USPS.

  • Jon Hoffman

    @Franking Machines:

    Adapting to a new shipment day is a non-issue for most businesses(or should be). No business expects Sunday shipments, so losing Saturday shouldn’t be that big of a deal, it is a simple coordination and scheduling change.

    Despite this, all past attempts to end Saturday shipments have failed due to whining from businesses, so this one probably will too. I think the longest we have gone without Saturday shipments is a single Saturday, so you probably don’t need to worry too much. But for that to work out you should probably complain to your congress members instead of at Geek.com (which probably has few regular readers that are powerful government employees).