What Should Be Done to Save the Postal Service? "Reforming the Postal Service" (editorial, March 1) properly encourages Congress to address the agency's financial problems, but urges the wrong action. Reducing service won't save the Postal Service but rather destroy it, by driving people away and lowering revenue. Ending Saturday delivery, for example, would cede 17 percent of service to save 2 percent of expenditures, while inconveniencing small businesses, the elderly, rural residents and others. Further, it would jeopardize the Postal Service's ability to capitalize on the growing delivery of goods ordered online. Last month, when announcing a $200 million operational profit delivering mail in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2012, the Postal Service cited its 7 percent rise in Internet-related shipping. The best day to deliver those packages: Saturday, when people are home. Why did the agency simultaneously report $3.3 billion in overall red ink? That raises the real problem, one unrelated to the mail. The 2006 Congressional mandate that the Postal Service prefund future retiree health benefits for the next 75 years, and do so within a decade, accounts for 90 percent of all red ink since the measure took effect, including more than $3 billion last quarter alone. Congress created that problem, and Congress can fix it. Then the Postal Service, which uses no taxpayer money, can focus on adapting to society's evolving needs while continuing to provide the industrial world's most affordable delivery service. FREDRIC ROLANDO President, National Association of Letter Carriers Washington, March 2, 2012 Your editorial was on point. The Direct Marketing Association has asked Congress to remove the shackles from Postal Service management so that it may right-size its operations in light of this electronic communications age. Mailers, who finance the Postal Service through postage, cannot afford to maintain a mail processing, transportation and delivery network intended for an earlier era and double the mail volume. Congress must act now to give postal management authority to create a sound financial footing for the future of mail communications. LAWRENCE M. KIMMEL Chief Executive Direct Marketing Association New York, March 5, 2012