Post Office Ending Saturday Delivery & Next Day First Class Service A New Tax

It is all over the headlines. The United States Post Office will stop Saturday delivery in August. Back in 2011, the Post Office ended what many Americans depended on, the end of first class mail that was delivered in one day.

It is true that with the advent of email and electronic communication, that much less people to people letters, bills, etc. and other first class mail is being processed by the postal service. The US Post Office like any private company has the ability to downsize the portion of its business where volume has declined even as it increases the portion that is increasing, package delivery, as e-commerce continues to expand.

What the US Post Office cannot handle is politically contrived inflicted wounds as stated by Al Griffin, the president of Letter Carriers Branch 377.



His statements were prescient. In 2006 Congress passed a bill that requires the postal service to pay a 75 year pension liability in 10 years, a feat not required not even by private companies who can ultimately be bailed out by the government. This bill, H.R. 6407: Postal Accountability Act is nothing more than a bill designed to kill most of the postal service. Congress cannot just kill it all because the postal clause in the constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 9) demands its existence.

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