The United States Postal Service will end Saturday mail delivery on August 5 to curb its losses which has ballooned to nearly $6 billion. USPS will continue to deliver packages and Express Mail on Saturdays, as well as delivering mail to P.O. boxes on that day. The stoppage is expected to result in a $2 billion savings annually.

How will this impact in-house mail centers?    

"This may cause a huge ripple in the way we do business! As our organization provides vital services to our city residents, being able to process and manage timely payments for those services is crucial. The lack of Saturday mail service could slow the initial timely delivery of invoices and impact the receipt of payments as residents are accustomed to Saturday pick up at their homes and businesses. Mondays have always been heavy mail days for us in our operation because the weekend mail is being delivered, picked up and processed and held for that Monday morning pick up. It's difficult to predict just how adversely this will impact us yet, but without a doubt, we'll feel the impact and adjustments will have to be made."

City of Greensboro

"This change will generate cost savings to the university as we will eliminate delivery of Saturday mail to the students as well. This change will not affect the service we provide to the university departments, however, we will encourage our customers to add a day or two for delivery of their mail."

Beth Gatewood, CMM

University of Oklahoma

"We are mostly a Monday through Friday governmental operation, so initially I don't think we'll see much impact. However, several of our departments/divisions have time sensitive mail to clients that requires a response by a deadline (for example for unemployment benefits). I'm assuming that mail will still be moving through the USPS system and facilities in spite of the elimination of Saturday delivery."

Dave Mosher

Larimer County Colorado

"We make two runs per day (Monday through Friday) to the post office, to pick up and drop off USPS mail. We are closed on Saturdays, and pick up all weekend mail on Mondays. I believe this will shift some of the incoming units received to Tuesdays and the most impact it will have will be on incoming invoices to the accounting department. Of course, in reverse, anything we take to the post office on Friday will possibly not be processed until Monday, although there was no mention regarding cutting processing of mail. We may, depending on actual experience, need to communicate with the accounting department, in order to modify or adjust the check run schedules to meet deadlines on invoices. In addition, we still do mail out transfer requests, truancy notifications, and report cards, so delivery of those will also be impacted. Our district services almost 100,000 students. Another area of impact may also be the grants department, which typically operates on very tight submission deadlines. However, we may compensate for those times by using our UPS delivery system."

Karin Tarter, CGCM

Albuquerque Public Schools

"I hosted a Direct Marketing Symposium the morning of the announcement. We had several key USPS personnel from headquarters and our district present and they gave the announcement during the Symposium. I was not surprised, I have been expecting it for the last two years and it really doesn't impact us much. Most of our mail is financial statements and as long as we get them out in a timely fashion and our members receive them in a timely fashion with accurate information, all is good."

Betsy Schaeffer

MERS of Michigan

"Here at UNC Charlotte fortunately we will  not feel any impact by the Saturday mail delivery changes.  Mail dropped off on Saturday and Sunday will not be sorted or delivered until the following Monday. Our students and our faculty/staff, who are in classes on these days, are already accustomed to this. I think that this will impact those who process mail to students on the weekend because of their expectations to continue to receive mail on Saturdays. It would be interesting to know the volume of schools in this category."

Horace Lytch

University of North Carolina-Charlotte

"The discontinuation of Saturday mail delivery will not adversely affect the City of Renton's operations, as we have always been closed on the weekends and have had all our mail delivered on Mondays anyway. We may need to consult with our utility lock box service and review our mailing and due date timelines for utility services. Personally I am concerned that we are falling into an electronic lifestyle that can easily be disrupted and manipulated."

Karl Hurst

City of Renton

"For those colleges and universities with contract units which handle student mail, these operations normally are open on Saturdays to provide package pickup for students. Once mail is suspended on Saturday, the contract units may experience reduction in staffing. Less mail will reduce the amount of labor hours needed to sort and case first class letter/flat volumes. A major concern is inbound volumes, for certain days of the week, could change for all C&U operations as sorting and delivery of the affected categories may shift forward to later in the week. Other than USPS, colleges and universities provide 'last mile' delivery to more individuals than any other organization in the United States."

Lea Holt, CMM

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

"Until the USPS announces operational/processing impact to customers (us), we cannot determine the impact to our customers, employers, members, retirees. It may mean simply adding a one day delivery receipt expectation to our customers and/or adjusting mail-out dates on our end. We really don't know what to expect at this point."

Kim Dalton

Ohio Pubic Employees Retirement System

Mark Tindell

Columbia College