Postal services worldwide are will stop delivering mail on Saturdays starting August 5. By not delivering mail on Saturdays, the U.S Postal Service will, supposedly, save $2 billion a year.

Post offices that are currently open on Saturdays will remain open that day; mail will still be delivered to the offices, but will not be distributed to the public.

Saving 2 billion dollars sounds nice and all, but people are not going to be okay with not getting their mail. Not getting mail on Saturdays could really hurt people, in terms of timliness.

If someone’s credit card company sends them their bill and it’s delivered on Saturday, that person’s bill would be charged as being late because they didn’t get the bill until Monday.

Some of the public use companies that offer  priority mail and express mail. Those services are going to start receiving more income when no mail on Saturday is put into place because citizens are going to want their mail earlier than Monday when mail will actually be delivered.

Services that are supposed to get mail to the public quicker are going to raise their prices, thus increasing income to these companies also.

A large amount of letter carriers, rural carriers, clerks and mail handlers’ jobs are threatened from the cutback. All of those jobs are going to be cut on Saturdays and that will result in some having to find another job.

There is a large negative reaction from the public, thinking that it is not a good idea to stop mail on Saturdays. Protests saying that the post office should stay open have occurred across the country.

The stoppage of mail on Saturdays will slow down services on Monday, and the other days of the week. The large accumulation of mail that will arrive in post offices on Saturdays will be all pushed to Monday’s delivery, making it slower than usual and harder to be distributed correctly.