Old lady talking here----------I remember when, at Christmastime, the mail would be delivered twice a day. The post office quit that and we lived without it! We used to get two newspapers a day. The St. Paul Pioneer Press (AM)/St. Paul Dispatch(PM) quit that and we lived without it! And now the newspapers are in trouble, because people go on line to read their news!!!!!!!
I believe so much is being done online that the post office just can't afford what they are doing now. I know that some days we get our mail at 9:00 AM and sometimes at 6:00 PM. We are not a regular route anymore. Whoever gets done with their route first, gets us! We apparently are "outside the box". And we live in a town of 286 and some thousand people!!!!!!!! So this will probably affect big towns also! We are in the middle of two postoffices, both of which are necessary, so I am not worried about them closing, I worry about the carriers and their jobs and when and if we will even get our mail. Maybe they will deliver every other day or something.
And, I am part of it. I have a deal going with our trash hauler, cable company, utilities, where they will send us our bill, we print it out and make a copy for ourselves and send the bill to them. We are credited $2.95 by our trash hauler and it costs them less to process and send the bill to us....less mail to handle for them, less mail to handle for the post office, more convenient for us. It turns out to be a horse a piece!!!!!
The times they are a'changin'! Edie