Never, one extra day not to worry about bills and enjoy a full weekend.

For packages etc I use FEDEX and/or UPS who have their own planes. The post office contracts with airlines..we know how reliable that can be..although Tom Hanks and Wilson didn't fair well with FEDEX.

The City of Woonsocket will miss it,ever notice that property tax bills are timed to be delivered on Saturday?Looks like they'll get a pass this year as long as the bills go out in July.

With taxes set to go up as far as the eye can see,i figure they'll stop answering the phones at City Hall one fine summer day in 2014.

Won't miss it at all.

I don't think we still need a government run and sponsored mail delivery service. Let them compete with UPS and Fedex. The Feds should sell it to the highest bidder (and put that cash against our debt). Also revoke the government's "franking" priviledge.

5 days a week of receiving all manner of junk mail is quite enough. But seriously dropping a single day is nothing major.

I will miss the package deliveries on Saturday. More vendors are using the USPS than ever before. I've talked to some UPS and FEDEX workers, and they said they can't touch the USPS rates. I know FEDEX has Saturday home delivery, UPS does not. I appreciate the Saturday deliveries. Especially if I have a project that can only be done on a weekend.

Cranston Voter
This move in my opinion will have absolutely no impact on the average family and should have been done a couple of years ago. It's like anything else, once you get accustomed to it, it will become routine. No different than no mail on a holiday, Seems like a step in the right direction for a country so deeply in debt!

Doesn't really matter as it is now confirmed that USPS will stop delivering First class mail on Satuday's starting Aug.

WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service announced plans today to transition to a new delivery schedule during the week of Aug. 5, 2013 that includes package delivery Monday through Saturday, and mail delivery Monday through Friday. The Postal Service expects to generate cost savings of approximately $2 billion annually, once the plan is fully implemented.

http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_019.htm

no...the bills can wait til Monday

Not a bit. We clean out our mailbox once a week. Works fine for us.

I could get by with just Monday, Wednesday, & Friday mail delivery.

This is just another sign that this country is going under, The USPS can not operate on a 6 day schedule. What will mail delivery look like after a monday holiday? With direct deposit and bill pay, cant see why the PO is having such problems.

90% of the mail I receive is flyers , news print ads , junk mail. I put it in the recycle bin where the town pays a hundred thousand a year to haul it to Johnston. One less day of junk. Can I get a Spam Filter for my Mail box ?

I won't miss Saturday delivery. I wouldn't miss it on Tuesday or Thursday either.

THE MAIL WOULD DO O K IF IT WAS DELIVERED THREE DAYS A WEEK,,,MONDAY,WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, WOULD DO FINE. THIS WOULD SAVE A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY FOR THE POST OFFICE SYSTEM. THIS SYSTEM ISN'T WORKING,JUST LIKE ALL THE GOVERNMENT RUNNED SYSTEM. THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T OPERATE ANYTHING RIGHT. EVERYTHNG THEY TOUCH RUNS A DEFICIT.

It would not be a good choice for small businesses. Small business owners face enough trials. Why add an extra day to wait for accounts payable to arrive in the mail?

Understand the cut, but not happy about it.

If the postal service didn't spend so much sponsoring Lance Armstrong maybe they would be in better conditions.

STOP MONDAY DELIVERY
Because we celebrate holidays on Monday an mail is laggard.
Joe Nev.

To be fair, the USPS is seemingly the only government agency that has to pay for onerous pension demands immediately. For some reason, they have to prefund 75 years worth of pensions completely, I believe. While obviously, Rhode Island residents of all people can realize this isn't the worst thing in the world, it's also responsible for the majority of the post office's current "deficit." It's not good to only fund pensions at a 10 to 20 percent level, like what a lot of Rhode Island towns have done, but requiring the USPS to completely pay for a pension today that someone might not earn and cash in for 75 years seems to be folly in the opposite extreme. The Washington Post has a summary blog post about this here - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/06/the-post-office-is-defying-congress-by-halting-saturday-deliveries-why/

I honesty won't miss it at all. In fact, if it saves enough money they should just go to Monday, Wednesday, Friday delivery.

they have been delivering mail on sat saturdays for 150 years.they also delivered twice a day during the christmas season, that stopped too.

Congress because of special interests, lobbing by the Chamberof Commerce, junk mail corporations etc etc--has never relinguished control over the Postal Service.
The smoke and mirrors quasi-public govening board is a political joke composed of high paying no show jobs to insiders.
The USPS is revenue neutral; however, because Congress requires that pensions costs be paid for up front, the service loses money. It is the only one required to do so and the bulk of its money is invested by guess who? The USPS govening board and Wall St.
Harry Houdini could have not done better. Saturday deliveries were blocked by Congress not for economic reasons but political reasons. Watch the special interests raise hell now and how Congres reacts. Money talks and you know what walks.

5 days a week is fine with me. People who receive SS, SSDI etc; usually get checks on the first but if it falls on a Saturday or Sunday they get them on Friday so it doesn't make a difference.

UPDATE;

Part 1

So it begins. Yet another good idea that the DEMS and the Unions will fight tooth and nail to stop. Of course they are blaming the GOP already for this naturally. No matter what cuts the GOP comes up with or supports the DEMS refuse to allow. They then look for loop holes to stop it and their masters in the Unions cry the blues and demand they stop it.

Those who think it does not cost the taxpayers are very wrong; The USPS has been borrowing money to the tune of Billions from the treasury, (that is taxpayer funds). Yes the defaulted in paying it back so we foot the bill for this. The mandates that “Congress” keeps putting on this USPS, along with the “Postal Union” is what is driving it out of business, not the way it runs. They have known for years this was coming.

Look for healthcare to be the next thing that goes bust in this country. The CBO has confirmed what many suspected all along on the bill no-one read that it will balloon into an epic destruction of our healthcare system. We have hit the proverbial wall in so many government entities, and the DEMS could care less it is all on them as this USPS problem will be also now. I do not fault the GOP on the healthcare since the fact is, they voted unanimously against it knowing its cost was a lie. Whether they will have a hand in this is yet to known. If they do then shame on them as well.

While the true background of why the USPS is facing financial issues (mandatory retirement pre-funding, Congressional/US Government franking, “last mile” mandate) is lost in the rhetoric, it remains one of the original and most recognizable features of our great country. The postal carrier is an integral part of daily life in many rural parts of our country. For some Americans, they are the only person they may see on any given day. Did you know the USPS is legally obligated to deliver to every US address (when mail is available for that address) every day they deliver. So they deliver to places like the base of the Grand Canyon (via mule) or to remote villages in the wilds of Alaska. Some would argue “well, they could drop the mail via parachute into the Grand Canyon” but those arguments miss the point. The USPS is part of the fabric of America. In some communities the post office is a gathering place to trade local news and gossip. It’s a community feature that will be missed when it is gone.

And the carrier has served a more basic service than just putting mail in your box? It’s been reported that postal carriers report more crimes than any other entity. They are the “eyes” and “ears” for us all in our neighborhoods. They recognize a vehicle that may not belong. They are one of the first sources the Police seek out when a housebreak occurs while the homeowner is at work during the day. The sad part is that most people do not think of the incidental benefits the USPS provides when they bring that despised junk mail to your door. If Congress truly wanted the USPS to survive they would stop using them as a cash cow to the tune of $6-10 billion a year and allow them to compete with UPS and FedEx. Privatizing mail delivery has been spoken about for over 20 years but the reality is that if your address is at the end of a long route, the so called “last mile”, would you want your postal rate to be $2.00 per mail piece while your friend in the city who lives in a high-rise pays only $0.50 per piece? As the USPS evolves, and tries to remain relevant in the digital age, we should understand the beneficial service they provide and hope it doesn’t go the way of the Pony Express. Just another part of our history that is only recalled in museums.

And in the interest of full disclosure, I was a former postal manager for over 20 years who is now in private industry but I understand what the USPS means beyond Publishers Clearing House and bills in the daily mail. Benjamin Franklin, the first Postmaster General appointed in 1775 said “any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do”.

Like the Pony Express and the Telegraph as technology changes so do the times

Noted with some satisfaction that the head of the Postal Union is appalled at the idea. Which suggests why Congress has made the idea illegal to this point.

This at least suggests that costs will go down.
Remember when some East Bay communities were considering going to a 4 day school week, saying it would save on heating, electricity etc. And we said WHAT? Won't it save on teacher's salaries? and we were told no, they would not be affected.

It appears that for postal workers, unlike for teachers, there is this crazy idea that how much you work should have some bearing on how much you are paid.

Not at all. Too much junk mail. All I really want is first class mail from companies I do business with and a few publications.

Yes. I receive payments through the mail so if a check is mailed on Thursday or Friday I might not receive it til Monday if there's no Saturday delivery.

no mail delivery on Saturdays...what a surprise...cannot believe it lasted for this long. The USPS could have cut this service years ago.

Wont miss it at all!!!