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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Postal Service to End Saturday Mail

The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. Speak out, Largo: How will this affect you?

Calling the six-days-per-week mail delivery business model “no longer sustainable,” the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday morning announced 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. 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 costs are …

Gerry Rogers

10:44 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013

Rasmussen is correct. I don't need more junk mail on Saturdays. Let's cut the cost of this bureaucracy. Wish the US government will follow the same plan and cut tremedious borrowing and spending. Everyone has to live within their means so why shouldn't the government and postal service?   more ›

Monday, January 28, 2013

New Stamp Prices in Effect

The U.S. Postal Service is now charging a penny more for regular letters.

Largo residents hoping a drop a few letters into the mail this week might want to check their stamps. The cost of sending out a letter just went up by a penny. The U.S. Postal Service raised the rate to mail a 1-ounce letter from 45 cents to 46 cents yesterday, Jan. 27. The good news, however, is anyone who uses a “Forever stamp” won’t have to scramble to get extra postage. Going forward, the new 46-cent Forever stamps will continue to cover postage costs – no matter what price increases come down from Washington, D.C. “Forever stamps are always good for mailing a one-ounce letter anytime in the future regardless of price changes,” a postal service media release said. The Postal Service is also introducing a new Global Forever stamp, which…

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