I voted four days a week, but ideally, I’d love to see Monday-Wednesday-Friday one week, Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday the next.
One day a week would work just fine for me. I pay everything but my mortgage online or through automatic deductions. Rarely get personal, hand-written letters any more.
It’s actually pretty rare that I get something really relevant to my life delivered by the USPS.
I hate to see people lose jobs, but the USPS is fast becoming an anachronism. And like a couple of other people mentioned upthread, I’ve been home when they’ve left a “sorry you weren’t home” notice about a package - umm yes I was, you were just too lazy to get out of your postal jeep and walk the 20 feet to my door.
I voted 2 days. The only time-sensitive thing I get through the mail is Netflix. I’m assuming that Netflix would still receive and send movies daily (since they are so high-volume), but that I would only get home delivery/pickup two days a week.
Of course, I could just give up Netflix. I’m sure I’d survive.
I picked once a week, although I’ve been happy with my once per month service lately. Aside from welfare recipients*, who needs to be standing near his mailbox awaiting the mail every, single day? Not even welfare recipients! It’s all electronic these days.
Clearly I’m distinguishing regular, first class mail from parcel service, and home service from business service (business can pay, or use alternatives).
- I remember my mom coming almost to tears when the welfare check didn’t show up on the occasional Friday and she had to wait until Monday to cash it [no Saturday banking back then]. But you know what? We survived.
I, too, thought that working at the post office would be a good job while I was unemployed…it was about 10-12/hr.
I need mail on Tuesday and Friday when my Netflix movies come.
I’d prefer at least four or five days a week, but I’d say I “need” once a week. Which is what I voted.
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I would prefer MWF, but would be OK with 1 day a week. I have noticed that the places I mailorder from tend to send UPS/FEDEX/DHL. I normally only get spam, catalogs and the occasional bill via snail mail. Oh, and birthday/holiday cards.
We actually had a post box near the sub base for years, and anything important went there - we had a scummy family that moved away about 8 years ago that used to steal out of the rural mailboxes on our street. [Oddly enough, it seems that any mail that looked like a birthday/christmas card mysteriously vanished and were weeks late … :dubious:]
I checked “Five days.” I could certainly do without Sat. delivery (we rarely get much other than catalogs then anyway), but I’d prefer delivery every weekday if possible.
Incidentally, central London had ten mail deliveries a day back in Victorian times. Wow! I remember reading in some novel that Lady Whosits could send you a party invitation for that very night, and you could send your RSVP on the same day, well in time for her to get it.
I chose 2 days. I only manage to get out to the mailbox about twice a week anyway. Mostly because there’s nothing worth going out there to get.
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I’d be fine with 3 days a week because that’s probably about the frequency that I actually receive something I’ll bother to open.
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However (and I like the alternating days schedule proposed above), I think the USPS should expand their hours on those three days, precisely to accommodate working people who want to send and receive packages. Let’s say they stay open (and delivering) until 9 pm on MWFs/TThSs. That way you wouldn’t have to wait two more days and take time off work just to go pick up a package.
It’s in the Constitution. You support the Constitution, don’t you?
Or keep the same amount of hours, but spread them out so there are times the post office is closed when there would be no customers anyway.
An interesting idea, but I would have to check the box everyday; who could remember which cycle you were on that week?
My clerk says she gets $18, but she delivers when she’s not clerking. She delivers in the mornings in a nearby town, and clerks here from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Maybe that’s why she’s paid more.
When the USPS met with us about our PO building closing, they said they’d be installing “cluster boxes” where we’d pick up our mail. In the meantime, the building is open 24/7 for us to pick up our mail, and the clerk is there from 11-2. I’d be fine if they left it like this. Outdoor mailboxes in an Iowa winter? The locks won’t freeze up? The USPS is going to keep them cleared of snow? I doubt it.
I would happily reduce the number of delivery days down to 2, as long as the post office itself stays open on non-delivery days. Heck, keep commercial and PO Box deliveries on a 5-6 day schedule, and cut residential deliveries. That has to save a lot of delivery labor.
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That last seems unlikely.
Twice per week would be fine - as long as one of the days was Saturday. There needs to be a day when us 9-5ers can be there to sign for a package. I’m not sayign there are no other solutions, but it woudl add to the inconvenience and greatly increase my use of other services.
I’d easily live with 3. Hell, if Cabela’s would stop sending me their catalogs after my repeated attempts to convince them, 2 days a week would be fine.