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Well, as of August, there will be no Saturday postal service, except for packages. In case you were thinking of complaining about this injustice, remember. we were responsible for curtailing our own mail service.
I am just as guilty as anyone, since I use the internet to pay my bills, send greeting cards, correspond with friends, etc. I used to buy a book of stamps every couple of weeks. Now I have almost a full book of Christmas stamps that I stamp the occasional letter with.
I heard on the news last night that for the Postal Service to maintain our services, they would have to charge $1.04 for a first class stamp. You'd have to keep your stamps in your safe deposit box if that happened. You could bequeath them to your children.
The world it is a-changin' and, like the post office, we either have to learn to live with the changes or get the heck out of the way. Sometimes I yearn for the good old days, but not when I'm loading the dishwasher, or watching a first-run movie without leaving the house, or diagnosing my latest ailments on Web.MD. For everything we have given up, we have received - for good or ill - ten things in return.
Anyway, I don't imagine having no Saturday delivery will have as much impact as it would have only a few years ago.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these
couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
But budget problems? Meh
