# Saturday Mail Delivery? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 23, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-mail-delivery/752917 "2016-04-23T17:06:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Whitney\_Harper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@Whitney\_Harper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whitney_Harper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-mail-delivery/752917/1 "2016-04-23T17:06:04Z")
Is the United States Post Office still going to stop mail delivery on Saturdays within the next several years? I haven’t heard anything about it for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-mail-delivery/752917/2 "2016-04-23T17:41:04Z")
No formal decision has been made, mostly [because Congress won’t allow it.](http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/management/agency/2015/07/15/postal-service/71062368/) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-mail-delivery/752917/3 "2016-04-23T21:00:40Z")
OTOH, there is now Sunday delivery of packages thanks to a deal between Amazon and the USPS. It’s weird to see the mail trucks roaming the neighborhood on a Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-mail-delivery/752917/4 "2016-04-23T21:18:01Z")
Oddly/foolishly enough, U.S. stamp prices just went _down_: [Stamp prices set to go down two cents in April](http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/news/stamp-price-decrease/) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-mail-delivery/752917/5 "2016-04-23T23:41:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Oddly/foolishly enough, U.S. stamp prices just went _down_: [Stamp prices set to go down two cents in April](http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/news/stamp-price-decrease/) I shut down a mail order business I had when I retired, and still had a huge pile of Forever Stamps. I figured it was a safe investment that I could use forever. Didn’t know I would end up losing. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-mail-delivery/752917/6 "2016-04-24T17:37:28Z")
Yeah, we keep hearing about stopping Saturday deliveries … and it makes a lot of sense. But the last two packages I got from Amazon were delivered by the Post Office on Sunday … in a small town of 5,000 people … no way it makes sense economically. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-mail-delivery/752917/7 "2016-04-24T17:44:05Z")
But that Sunday delivery only requires one driver to work on Sunday, and he/she is probably making deliveries to multiple towns, not just your town of 5,000 residents. So it can be done economically. (Keep in mind this was a special deal made between Amazon and the USPS, so presumably the price was negotiated so it’s profitable enough.)