By Lynn Post |Staff Writer| The US Post Office wanted to stop Saturday delivery, but thankfully the US Congress said forget it. Packages are a commodity and must continue to be delivered despite the new reality that more and more people are communicating using new technologies like the Internet and the cell phone. Fed Ex and UPS still handle package delivery, but 83.8 million packages went through the US Postal Service in 2012, and one of them could have been yours. Currently if you purchase books through Barnes and Nobel or Amazon your package will be delivered through UPS, but that may change. Congress became a savior to the 40 percent of people who receive packages through … [Read more...] about Yay for Saturday mail!
Recent Comments