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Looking at Cost Cutting in US Mail Service
Hello! I'm David Muhlbaum, Web Editor for Kiplinger.com here with “The Kiplinger
Forecast”. Say goodbye to mail on Saturdays, that’s right, come 2011 or so, the postal
service will be cut-back to a Monday to Friday schedule, a plan that figures will save at at
least three billion a year. Congress will grudgingly go along, though not until after the
2010 elections. Law makers are reluctantly coming to the conclusion that cost-cutting,
and higher rates loan can’t dig the service out of the hole it's in.
Now businesses that rely on Saturday delivery of ads to tune up of weekend sales will
need to adapt. Consultants can help with software that determines the best days of the
week to mail everything from bills to promotions. The Post Office is likely to keep only
very limited services on Saturdays, open hours from business mail in the morning and
pick-up some express mail boxes. But, it's not ruling out getting back into the Saturday
business when volume surges around the holidays or setting up a special delivery for
mail-ordered medicines.
That’s been your Kiplinger forecast. I'm David Muhlbaum, thank you!
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