The U.S. Postal Service isn’t waiting any longer for permission from Congress to quit delivering mail on Saturdays. It says it’s going ahead with plans to start five-day-a-week delivery in August. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says the agency’s financial condition is urgent, and the change will save about $2 billion a year. Under the plan, letters would be delivered to homes and businesses only from Monday through Friday. Mail would still be delivered to post office boxes on Saturdays, and post offices now open on Saturdays would remain open. Regional Postal Service spokesman Pete Nowacki says packages would still be delivered on Saturdays….
:21 Q: won’t change.
The Postal Service has been advocating a shift to five-day delivery for several years, but Congress hasn’t approved it.