Editing United States Postal Service (section)

==== Elimination of Saturday delivery averted ====
On January 28, 2009, [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General]] [[John E. Potter]] testified before the Senate<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/Potter.pdf |title=Postmaster General/CEO John E. Potter Before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management |access-date=January 28, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130020740/http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/Potter.pdf |archive-date=January 30, 2009}}</ref> that, if the Postal Service could not readjust its payment toward the contractually funding earned employee retiree health benefits, as mandated by the Postal Accountability & Enhancement Act of 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usps.com/postallaw/_pdf/PostalServiceNetworkPlan.pdf |title=Postal Accountability & Enhancement Act of 2006 |access-date=February 11, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201150834/http://www.usps.com/postallaw/_pdf/PostalServiceNetworkPlan.pdf |archive-date=December 1, 2008}}</ref> the USPS would be forced to consider cutting delivery to five days per week during June, July, and August.

H.R. 22, addressing this issue, passed the House of Representatives and Senate and was signed into law on September 30, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|title=Text of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr22/text|website=www.govtrack.us|publisher=United States Government|access-date=December 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210171057/https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr22/text|archive-date=December 10, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, Postmaster General Potter continued to advance plans to eliminate Saturday mail delivery.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Memmott |first=Mark |date=March 2, 2010 |title=Would You Miss Saturday Mail Delivery? |language=en |work=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/03/saturday_mail_disappears_posta.html |access-date=September 9, 2022}}</ref>

On June 10, 2009, the [[National Rural Letter Carriers' Association]] (NRLCA) was contacted for its input on the USPS's current study of the effect of five-day delivery along with developing an implementation plan for a five-day service plan. A team of Postal Service headquarters executives and staff was given a time frame of sixty days to complete the study. The current concept examines the effect of five-day delivery with no business or collections on Saturday, with Post Offices with current Saturday hours remaining open.

On Thursday, April 15, 2010, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing to examine the status of the Postal Service and recent reports on short and long-term strategies for the financial viability and stability of the USPS entitled "Continuing to Deliver: An Examination of the Postal Service's Current Financial Crisis and its Future Viability". At which, PMG Potter testified that by 2020, the USPS cumulative losses could exceed $238&nbsp;billion, and that mail volume could drop 15 percent from 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Hearings/Committee_on_Oversight/2010/041510_Postal_Service/TESTIMONY-Potter-USPS.pdf |title=Statement of Postmaster General/CEO John E. Potter Before the Committee on Government on Oversight & Government Reform United States House of Representatives & Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia |access-date=April 15, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809190908/http://oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Hearings/Committee_on_Oversight/2010/041510_Postal_Service/TESTIMONY-Potter-USPS.pdf |archive-date=August 9, 2010}}</ref>

In February 2013, the USPS announced that in order to save about $2&nbsp;billion per year, Saturday delivery service would be discontinued except for packages, mail-order medicines, Priority Mail, Express Mail, and mail delivered to Post Office boxes, beginning August 10, 2013.<ref name="USPS No Saturday">{{cite web|title=Postal Service Announces New Delivery Schedule|url=http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_019.htm|publisher=United States Postal Service|access-date=February 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208165021/http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_019.htm|archive-date=February 8, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="CBS end Saturday">{{cite news|title=U.S. Postal Service: Saturday letter delivery to end in August|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-postal-service-saturday-letter-delivery-to-end-in-august/|newspaper=[[CBS News]]|date=February 6, 2013|access-date=January 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102035352/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-postal-service-saturday-letter-delivery-to-end-in-august/|archive-date=January 2, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/postal-service-to-end-saturday-mail-delivery-in-bid-to-cut-costs/|title=Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery in bid to cut costs|access-date=February 6, 2013|work=[[Fox News]]|date=February 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102035352/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/06/postal-service-to-cut-saturday-mail-to-trim-costs.html|archive-date=January 2, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> However, the [[Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013]], passed in March, reversed the cuts to Saturday delivery.<ref name="about.usps.com">{{cite web|url=http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_0410bogstatement.htm|title=Statement from the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors|date=April 10, 2013|access-date=April 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413141257/http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_0410bogstatement.htm|archive-date=April 13, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>