No more mail at your door? Postal Service considers halting doorstep delivery
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Last updated: Wednesday July 24, 2013, 11:44 PM
BY ANDREW MIGA
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Door-to-door mail delivery is about as American as apple pie. With the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, that tradition could be virtually phased out by 2022 under a proposal in Congress.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday approved a plan to move to cluster box and curbside delivery, which includes mailboxes at the end of driveways.
The proposal is part of broader legislation by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the oversight and government reform panel, designed to cut costs at the cash-strapped agency by up to $4.5 billion a year. The Postal Service had a $16 billion loss last year.
The bill was approved on a party-line vote, with 22 Republicans supporting it and 17 Democrats opposing it.
Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer said the agency would evaluate Issa’s bill based on whether it would enable the agency to make $20 billion in savings by 2017.
“The Postal Service looks forward to working with Chairman Issa and the committee to improve the bill as it makes its way through the legislative process,” Partenheimer said.
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Stop saturday deliveries they make no sense. Who will pay for hundreds of thousands of idiotic cluster mailboxes?
Simple way to save money.
Get rid of the layers of supervisors who make big $$ and do nothing but agitate the friendly carriers.
Buy electric vehicles or natural gas powered vehicles.
Stop raising the price of first class mail. All it does is kill the business by making us think about FREE online bill pay, or putting 10 monthly bills on a single credit card statement and buying 1 stamp instead of 10.
I would pay to opt out of junk mail. I get more junk mail than personal mail. Most businesses will do online billing.
What about placing your mailbox on your apron facing the street like they do in other states?
Our mail carriers are so bad they deliver our neighbor’s mail to us and we haven’t seen OUR mail in 3 days.
Maybe the USPS could take advice from the jerks that hurl unwanted, junk newspapers into our yard. Despite letters and phone calls, like clockwork, they litter our property every week. We are even getting papers in KOREAN now!
Does anyone know how to get these papers stopped once and for all?
#6: File a littering complaint. Make the loser show up in court.
If you are on vacation and your house gets broken into (while these junk papers are hurled onto your property) then sue the shit out of the company that delivered them.
When I go away, I stop the mail and the subscription papers.
Having that crap in your driveway alerts burglars that nobody is home. Its disgraceful that the Village does not go after these companies for littering.
We came home after only two days away and those disgusting, free newspapers were piled up on our lawn. It IS a dead giveaway that we’re away.
I thought littering was a crime. This trashing and invasion of our privacy, property and home has to stop!
But how? There are no addresses to write to, email addresses or phone numbers to call and sometimes the papers are not even in English!
Call the subscription or distribution department of each publication and make it clear that you do not wish to receive their throwaways. (They will sound surprised.) I believe they must legally stop leaving them there. It can take multiple phone calls but eventually it will work. It did for me, at least so far, for at least several years now.
Takes effort but well worth it. I hated those–especially when returning from out of town or when they were buried in snow or sopping wet.
Thank you, #10!