Just Announced on the AP this morning:
“Postal Service to cut Saturday mail to trim costs” (*see link to full article below)
According to the article, the United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to drop Saturday delivery of letters the week of August 5th, 2013 in an attempt to save the Postal Service $2 billion annually.
This change should have no impact on the way LetterStream prints and mails letters and correspondence for our customers. It should be noted that without Saturday delivery of mail, homeowner, consumers and recipients may receive their statements or other documents a day later than usual.
In the grand scheme of things we believe the impact will be minimal for the following reasons:
- Most of the “time sensitivities” and legal regulations of mail relate to when the mail piece is actually mailed, not when it is received.
- Most mail pieces that require a recipient to act in some way allow an appropriate number of days for the recipient to respond.
- Most businesses don’t pick up their mail on Saturdays anyway.
However, to reduce any impact this announcement may have, we encourage you to load your jobs to the LetterStream website earlier in the work week and schedule your mailings with this information in mind.
For those not currently using LetterStream for printing and mailing, we believe our services can cut time out of your current mailing process, thus negating the impact of changes to mail delivery.
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The full AP story can be found here:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/postal-service-cut-saturday-mail-trim-costs