Delivering the Future: a Balanced Approach
Five-Day Delivery is Part of the Solution

Chapter 4 - How five-day delivery would work

Transportation

Eliminating Saturday collection and processing will reduce highway contract route (HCR) transportation and result in savings of approximately $141.7 million for Saturday and $113.7 million for Sunday. Total HCR savings will be $255.4 million.

Eliminating Saturday delivery will also reduce motor vehicle services (MVS) transportation by approximately 42 percent. These reductions result in the elimination of approximately 1.2 million annual work hours on Saturday. The savings for MVS work-hour reductions will be approximately $56.5 million. Fuel reductions will save an additional $2.8 million, for a total MVS savings of approximately $59.3 million.

Outbound air transportation on Sunday will be eliminated. Mail previously transported on Sunday will instead be transported on Tuesday. Demand on the current Tuesday air network supporting Monday’s outgoing processing network will increase, requiring the use of alternate air transportation networks. Use of these networks will result in savings of approximately $62.3 million.