Editing United States Postal Service (section)

==== Delivery days ====
From 1810, mail was delivered seven days a week. In 1828, local religious leaders noticed a decline in Sunday-morning church attendance because of local post offices' doubling as gathering places. These leaders appealed to the government to intervene and close post offices on Sundays. The government, however, declined, and mail was delivered seven days a week until 1912.<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://atheism.about.com/b/a/242048.htm About.com, "Sunday Mail Service in a Christian Nation", Austin Cline, February 19, 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906100319/http://atheism.about.com/b/a/242048.htm |date=September 6, 2008 }}. Retrieved October 10, 2007.</ref><ref name="The Atlantic">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/the-unlikely-alliance-that-ended-sunday-mail-delivery-in-1912/281370/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214003537/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/the-unlikely-alliance-that-ended-sunday-mail-delivery-in-1912/281370/|url-status=dead|title=The Unlikely Alliance That Ended Sunday Mail Delivery ... in 1912|first=Megan|last=Garber|date=November 12, 2013|archive-date=February 14, 2017|website=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref> Since then, U.S. Mail (with the exception of Express Mail)<ref>[http://www.usps.com/serviceperformance/dayofmailing.htm USPS – Express Mail Delivery Chart] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929150736/http://www.usps.com/serviceperformance/dayofmailing.htm |date=September 29, 2007 }}. Retrieved October 10, 2007.</ref> has not been delivered on Sunday.

Saturday delivery was temporarily suspended in April 1957, because of lack of funds, but quickly restored.<ref>[http://www.onthisday.com/events/april/13 Historyorb.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102035351/http://www.onthisday.com/events/april/13 |date=January 2, 2016 }}, events April 13.</ref><ref>[http://www.onthisday.com/events/april/15 Historyorb.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102035351/http://www.onthisday.com/events/april/15 |date=January 2, 2016 }}, events April 15</ref>

Budget problems prompted consideration of dropping Saturday delivery starting around 2009. This culminated in a 2013 announcement that regular mail services would be cut to five days a week, which was reversed by Congress before it could take effect. (See the section [[#Revenue decline and planned cuts|Revenue decline and planned cuts]].)