# Cutting postal service by a day or two: So what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 29, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-postal-service-by-a-day-or-two-so-what/483504 "2009-01-29T04:17:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-postal-service-by-a-day-or-two-so-what/483504/45 "2009-01-30T09:30:05Z")
> [@ThirdOne](#): > > Makes me giggle. “It’s always been done that way” isn’t quite accurate. When my mother was young (and she’s no longer on this planet lol), mail was delivered twice a day… she grew up in Los Angeles city proper, many, many years ago. Mail used to serve for fast communications which today are done by phone or email. There was a time when London had five deliveries daily and when I was a kid in Madrid there were three daily deliveries all week and only one on Sundays. But times change and mail usage will decrease as it is replaced by email. I believe the next step will be just to subcontract it out to someone like FedEx. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-postal-service-by-a-day-or-two-so-what/483504)._