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Originally Posted by missdpuck
In a few minutes the US Postal Sevice will announce that it is going to discontinue Saturday mail delivery. I almost started a thread about it I was so excited. I am off today, so I texted th info to a coworker when it came up online and hour or so ago. This seems to be some kind of a shock for the Supervisors (or maybe not) as they called an emergency meeting around the old computer screen.
Why is this unpopular? Older folks like mail 6 days a week. Many younger people dont even realize we work on Saturdays, which is kinda funny.
This move is unpopular wuith the NALC (letter carriers union) as they feel it will cost jobs. They have just hired 22 new carriers for our office and they are due to start by April. Was this hiring done without the knowledge of this Saturday stuff? It will be interesting to see why this has suddenly been decided.
Supposedly this starts Aug 5.
This argument has been going on for years! Our PO is supposedly almost insolvent, but that in itself is another controversy.
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I don't think we have it in Canada either, at least I don't recall getting mail on Saturdays.