Not delivering as planned
Six-day-a-week first-class mail delivery ends in August. Unless it doesn't.
The Postal Service has announced an end to Saturday deliveries, part of its plan to save about $2 billion of a deficit now reaching about $16 billion annually.
But two bumps on the road to that plan emerged last week when:
� The Government Accountability Offices said the USPS is bound by law to deliver the mail six days a week.
� Congress sent to President Barack Obama legislation requiring six-day-a-week delivery.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe must have one of the least desirable jobs in Washington, where he heads an agency that loses $25 million a day - largely because of congressionally mandated contributions to its employee pension fund and its customers' shift to email - but is unable to make reasonable adjustments to what's widely acknowledged as an obsolete business model.
Will Saturday mail service end this summer? Donahoe might be the last person to ask.
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