For years, Congress had attached a rider to its annual appropriations bill requiring the Postal Service to provide six-day delivery.
He said the number of postal votes being delivered on election day to polling stations and obtained through last-minute Royal Mail delivery arrangements was growing.
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Donahoe, postmaster general and CEO, says Postal Service market research and other research has indicated that nearly 7 in 10 Americans support the switch to five-day delivery as a way for the Postal Service to reduce costs.
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The Postal Service has advocated a five-day schedule for mail and packages, but Congress has repeatedly blocked the move.
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For every day of delay, 12 postal workers are being attacked and we have now seen 15 people killed by dogs in recent years.
Royal Mail makes a loss on delivering letters and Ofcom, which regulates stamp prices, allowed the price rises because it said the future of the UK's universal, six-day-a-week postal service was "at severe risk" without it.
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"While we have actively participated in conversations around postal reform, and in particular, five-day delivery, we did not expect the USPS would act unilaterally, without congressional approval, and we await Washington's reaction and more details, " said its president, Mary Berner, in a statement.
He said the Postal Service delivers 680 million pieces of mail nationwide per day.
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The last national postal strike, when the union had a series of one-day strikes over several months without gaining much, is not a happy augury.
When FedEx started next-day mail, many predicted that the U.S. Postal Service would be unable to compete.
When FedEx (nyse: FDX - news - people ) started next-day mail, many predicted that the U.S. Postal Service would be unable to compete.
Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer which relies on the postal service for many of its deliveries, can simply ship items a day or two later if it is overwhelmed.
The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages to stem its financial losses in a world radically re-ordered by the Internet.
What Schmid hoped the Postal Service would do was leverage the fact that it delivered mail every day to every home to develop new products that could have been the paper version of highly targeted e-mails offering you a discount at your favorite store on your favorite product.
The urgency appeared to stem from the fact the two postal workers who died Monday had not gone to their doctors until just one day earlier, when they reported respiratory problems.
About 100 postal workers at a delivery office in south Bristol are staging a second one-day strike.
Fortunately for innovation, postal service to the backwoods of Pennsylvania was so slow that the letter arrived a day or two after Drake and Uncle Billy had, at a depth of 69 and a half feet, struck oil.
It seems like every day now, a new Web poll asks readers whether they think the US Postal Service can survive, now that the magnitude of its financial hole is becoming more obvious to everybody.
According to Friess, the Postal Service wouldn't need to hire new drivers or buy more trucks to offer same-day, Friess says.
Mr. Issa said he believes that as long as Postal Service delivers medicines, Internet orders and other packages on Saturday, it is meeting the mandate for six-day service.
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