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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4684795, member: 19463&quot;]Each of us will have differing personal situations but I would have no problem with my mail delivery being cut to three days a week (MWF or TuThSa) on a neighborhood basis.&nbsp; 95% of the mail I find in my box on a daily basis is ads for businesses I do not patronize and outright trash that I drop in the recycle bin on my way back into the house.&nbsp; Personal letters and greeting cards from friends are not what they were 50 years ago.&nbsp; I get the occasional coin package but they tend to be &#039;timed&#039; according to when they were mailed rather than transit time unless they involve customs which is not something we need to hold against the Post Office.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do know that you can slow down something by Registering it which also seems to increase the likelihood that it will take a delay filled tour of the country along the way.&nbsp; In the last month, my coin transit times (payment by Paypal to delivery) ranged from 3 days to three weeks with the latter sitting untouched by a California VCoins dealer and not mailed for 18 days.&nbsp; I understand the desire not to go out to mail things but that is not my definition of reasonable.&nbsp; I would prefer the resources saved by the every other day schedule applied to maintaining post office staffing for mailing things 6 days a week and cutting down the lines we encounter there.&nbsp; Even those wait times have been improved locally by the fact that the crowds of people getting passports at the post office here have been cut way down due to Covid travel restrictions.&nbsp; I can&#039;t say I ever understood why it was necessary to use post offices for passport business in the first place.&nbsp; Persons who want daily access to their incoming mail do have the option of renting a post office box which also lessens the impact of mail trucks arriving after the morning departure of home delivery carriers.&nbsp; I do not support the idea of making the Post Office into a profitable business rather than a &#039;service&#039; but it might just be time to realize that the business and personal needs of 21st century lifestyles are different than they were 200 or even 20 years ago.&nbsp; I, for one, can wait for the paper format spam that gets stuffed in my mailbox and would rather see the time my carrier spends on the road utilized in receiving and sorting my outgoing mail.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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