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Postal Service plan: No more Saturday mail The agency is moving to stem massive losses, and postal workers would feel the effect in job losses and cuts in overtime hours.
Feb. 09, 2013
Dave Stacy has been delivering mail for the U.S. Postal Service for more than 20 years. He walks his usual route in Takoma Park on Saturday, a day that will no longer see mail delivery starting in August unless Congress moves to block the Postal Service’s plan.
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Dave Stacy delivers mail in Takoma Park on Saturday. “When the weather is good, Old Town is just really hopping,” Stacy said. “I talk to everybody.”
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Dave Stacy has dropped off letters in the three-block Old Town business district and several surrounding neighborhoods of Takoma Park for more than two decades.
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Dave Stacy has a fistful of mail for his Takoma Park customers. Stacy says he recognizes his longtime customers by address, knows their birthdays, and is careful to put the checks and postcards on top of the stack and bills at the bottom.
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Dave Stacy drives and parks his vehicle before walking his Takoma Park routes. Residents who have built a rapport with Stacy over the years say they will miss his visits on Saturdays.
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Dave Stacy says he has mixed feelings about the planned end of Saturday mail delivery. He says he would enjoy Saturdays off for a change, “but I look at the big picture: You’re going to lose good middle-class jobs.”
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Feb. 6, 2013
Mail carrier Tony Quach waits for a break in traffic while making his rounds in Silver Spring. The Postal Service will still deliver packages on Saturday, but it plans to limit mail delivery to Monday through Friday in an effort to stanch losses.
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Feb. 6, 2013
Postal carrier Tony Quach walks his route on Evans Drive in Silver Spring. Postal unions say that under the Postal Service’s plan to end Saturday mail delivery, letter carriers, clerks and mail sorters would lose jobs — about 20,000 to 25,000 — through attrition, reassignments and possible buyouts.
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The traditional nemeses of mail carriers announce their presence as Tony Quach walks his route in Silver Spring.
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Postal carrier Tony Quach walks past a house on Evans Drive in Silver Spring while delivering mail. Under the Postal Service’s plan to end Saturday mail delivery, magazines, some newspapers, catalogues and Netflix movies would not reach customers’ homes that day.
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Postal carrier Anthony White sorts mail in his truck during his rounds in Kensington. Packages, a growing profit center for the Postal Service, will still be delivered on Saturdays.
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Postal carrier Anthony White drives his route in Kensington. The Postal Service’s plan to end mail delivery on Saturdays worries some customers who receive crucial benefits checks by mail.
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Postal carrier Eddie Crim makes his rounds along McComas Avenue in Kensington. The Postal Service, which reported the largest annual loss in its history in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, views ending Saturday mail delivery as a crucial step toward cutting costs.
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Postal carrier Eddie Crim chats with Bill Ivory on his route on McComas Avenue in Kensington. Ivory was just getting home from the grocery store. While many members of Congress support the Postal Service’s plan to end Saturday mail delivery, other legislators and postal unions are strongly opposed.
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