The Internet has finally succeeded where neither snow nor rain could succeed and has kept postal carriers from their appointed rounds.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been losing money for years now as more and more people have transitioned from sending letters through the mail to using email, texting and other forms of electronic communication. It has attempted many times to reduce mail delivery to five days a week, but met resistance from Congress. That hurdle has now been cleared and beginning the week of Aug. 5, 2013, delivery of regular mail will be reduced to Monday thru Friday.

Demonstrating the growing impact of online retailing, however, packages will continue to be delivered on Saturday as the USPS has seen a consistent rise in the volume of packages it is handling. This is sure to also have been contributed to by UPS’ consistently raising its rates each year.

In addition to package delivery continuing on Saturdays, any post office location that is currently open on the weekends will remain so after this transition. Those of you with post office boxes will also continue to receive regular mail on Saturdays.

This new delivery schedule is projected to save the USPS $2 billion annually once it is implemented.

At long last our weekends shall be freed from junk mail, catalogs and bills.

Source: Techno Buffalo