by Christopher Kendalls

Created on: March 06, 2010   Last Updated: March 08, 2010

People would like to know if the average citizen would take issue to the mail disappearing for one extra day and I would not object to this one bit. Honestly the mail is being sent out far too often as it is. No one really needs "snail mail" anymore no one would miss it. I barely check my mail as it is.

If the US Postal Service needs to save money, then by all means cut service where you may. If they were to cut back to just two days a week, that would work for me because I do not have to check my mail as often.

In fact here is a nifty idea; the US Postal Service can send me an email letting me know that I have mail and what that mail is and I can just go there and pick it up.

The Postal Service pays people good money to scan and transcribe addresses into a huge database anyway so this would be the perfect way to save money. Just send me an email, allow me to log into the database at a secure website and I can read through listings of my mail or browse pictures. 

If I do not want the mail I can tell you to discard it. If the recipient no longer lives there, I can return the mail or if I want to pick it up, I will come and get it or schedule a delivery which would then go at the same time that everyone else who actually wants their mail to be delivered, will have it delivered. It is a simple idea, efficient, and would save time, gasoline and valuable resources.

The problem with the Postal Service is that they deliver everything regardless of whether or not people actually want to receive the mail. Clearly you will have older individuals, senior citizens or those who just do not use computers or do not trust them to get the job, that will insist on having their mail sent. 

But I would bet good money that the average individual does not want this mail. Now if the Postal Service loses touch with someone who had initially signed up for the service that I am proposing in the aforementioned, then yes, by all means if you do not hear from someone for a week or two, send out the mail. 

But if someone does not want their mail why waste good money sending that mail to them. All the Postal Service needs to do is to streamline their process and I will guarantee you that they will recoup their lost revenue. There is no reason for them to have to cut out mail delivery on Saturdays. 

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