AM 1240 WJON » united states postal service http://wjon.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:06:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Postal Service Backs Down on Cutting Saturday Mail http://wjon.com/postal-service-backs-down-on-cutting-saturday-mail/ http://wjon.com/postal-service-backs-down-on-cutting-saturday-mail/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:38:32 +0000 The Associated Press http://wjon.com/?p=181088 The U.S. Postal Service says it will delay plans to cut Saturday mail delivery because Congress isn't allowing the change. The Postal Service said in February that it planned to cut back in August to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages, as a way to hold down losses.

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