Full Report On USPS Announcement To End Saturday Mail Delivery

• Effective date? Week of August 5th, 2013
• Mail impacted? All but packages, which will still be delivered to homes and mailboxes on Saturdays
• What's not to be impacted? USPS will still deliver mail into PO boxes on Saturdays
• Is it all worth it? USPS says it will save $2 billion annually
• How can this be executed without a law passed in Congress? In a meeting with industry association executives today, USPS Deputy Director Ron Stroman said he believes it can. "The existing prohibition for us going to five-day delivery is currently contained in a continuing resolution that expires March 27," he said. "Even if there's disagreement about our ability to move forward, we're not planning to implement this till the first week of August, which gives us plenty of time to discuss this with Congress. We're urging no restriction be included in any resolution going forward to fund the government. We have to align our processing operations with our mail volume."
• What is ACMA's position on ending Saturday delivery? We support this move and other aggressive cost cutting efforts, provided they make a material difference and help keep rates in check. We hope Congress will act soon to give the USPS greater flexibility in managing its costs.

• USPS press release
• USPS 'fact sheet'
• News story
• Reaction from Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), chairman of Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
• Joint reaction from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), chairman of House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and ranking minority member of Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, respectively
• Reaction from Rep. Elijah Cummings, Ranking Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
• Reaction from major postal unions:
  American Postal Workers Union (APWU), National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC)