The Postal Service is facing unprecedented volume declines and a projected $238 billion shortfall during the next decade. To ensure that America continues to have a viable Postal Service, the Postmaster General has introduced a comprehensive plan including cost cutting, increased productivity and legislative and regulatory changes that form the foundation for a leaner, more flexible Postal Service.
Moving to a six-day package delivery, five-day mail delivery schedule is one of the fundamental changes that will help USPS compete more effectively in the marketplace and better respond to changing customer needs.
Simply put, our plan calls for six days of package delivery Monday through Saturday, and five days of mail delivery to street addresses Monday through Friday. Post Offices and P.O. Boxes will continue to be open six days a week.
USPS would maintain six days of package delivery because we are seeing strong growth of our package business — a 14 percent revenue increase since 2010 — along with projections of strong package growth in the future.
Under five-day mail delivery, mail would no longer be delivered to street addresses — residences or businesses — or collected from them on Saturday. However, Post Offices will remain open Saturdays, continuing to provide normal customer services, including the sale of stamps and other postal products. Mail addressed to P.O. Boxes also will continue to be available Saturday.
We will implement the change when Congress passes comprehensive postal legislation that includes provisions affirmatively providing us with the ability to establish an appropriate national delivery schedule.