Ninety percent of what we receive in our mailboxes is junk mail. Perhaps instead of continuously raising the postal rates of all mail, including real business mail and personal letters or cards we send to friends and relatives, the USPS ought to raise the rates on all the commercial junk mail we constantly tear up without reading and throw away. Then the large companies, i.e., insurance companies, banks, real estate dealers, supermarkets and other organizations that blanket areas with commercial mail would surely consider qualifying their mailing lists more tightly, to send mail to residents who might actually be prospects for their products or services. With the rates as low as they are, the USPS is just helping fill up the landfills, and losing money at it to boot.
Re closing the post offices on Saturdays: Surely we can wait another couple of days to receive the personal cards and letters from folks we know, so cutting out mail deliveries on Saturdays seems reasonable. However, it should be recommended to keep post offices open to receive packages and mail we might not be able to send on other days due to work and other schedules. This is the way the USPS can cut down and still keep the general public serviced adequately. After all, it's pointless to have deliveries on Saturdays just to deliver more junk mail, but the real mail where people, customers, are paying top rates, must go through. Wasn't that the original spirit of the Postal Service?
Henry Francisco, Special to
The Port Whitman Times
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