{"id":12210,"date":"2013-02-06T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=12210"},"modified":"2013-02-07T07:30:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:30:20","slug":"usps-to-stop-saturday-mail-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=12210","title":{"rendered":"USPS Plans To Stop Saturday Mail Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uspslogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5409\" title=\"uspslogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/uspslogo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The U.S. Postal Service isn&#8217;t waiting any longer for permission from Congress to quit delivering mail on Saturdays. It says it&#8217;s going ahead with plans to start five-day-a-week delivery in August.<\/p>\n<p>Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe (DAHN&#8217;-uh-hoo) says the agency&#8217;s financial condition is urgent, and the change will save about $2 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plan, letters would be delivered to homes and businesses only from Monday through Friday. Packages would continue to be delivered on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>Mail would still be delivered to post office boxes on Saturdays, and post offices now open on Saturdays would remain open.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper and magazine industry may feel the impact most as it relies on the Postal Service for Saturday delivery.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota Newspaper Association Executive Director Roger Bailey said he has already contacted U.S. Senator, John Hoeven, and Heidi Heitkamp, and Representative Kevin Cramer, about stopping the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey said othe main concern is eliminating Saturday delivery of mail will create a backlog of mail that postal workers will have to deal with on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The U.S. Postal Service isn&#8217;t waiting any longer for permission from Congress to quit delivering mail on Saturdays. It says it&#8217;s going ahead with plans to start five-day-a-week delivery in August. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe (DAHN&#8217;-uh-hoo) says the agency&#8217;s financial condition is urgent, and the change will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12221,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions\/12221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}