How much fuel could we save by cutting post office delivery to just 3 or 4 days a week?

Question

And dont say they would be overwhelmed by it, all they have to do is sort it everyday and deliver a few days a week....once the system got adjusted, no one would care at all

Answer 1

Why not electric/battery powered postal vehicles?

Answer 2

Theoretically fuel costs would be cut by one sixth, but then you have to take into account all the business that would be hurt.  I prefer increasing the phase in rate of alternate fuel vehicles.  The USPS has quite a few alternative fuels vehicles but the more the better

Answer 3

Fuel costs would be cut in half.  Maybe they could use motorcycles with sidecars, wouldn't that be more fuel-efficient?

Answer 4

"We" wouldn't save any fuel. The USPS would save fuel. THere is no fuel shortage. Prices are high due to other factors, not the least of which is greedy oil companies.

Answer 5

It's a nice idea, but too many people rely on the Postal Service to conduct business.  Businesses need to receive payments on time, consumers need to make payments on time.  Yeah, there's electronic billing and such, but not everyone uses a bank and not everyone has a regular internet connection.  The economy being what it is, I don't know how many people and companies could survive without receiving and making payments on time.

Commercial carriers would probably be able to pick up the slack on package delivery, but the average $0.42 envelope, no.

Answer 6

some business depend on daily mail service without

they could go out of business in one week!

(suppose you are dying and the hospital has send lab

tests to a lab and there no delivery good by charie!

plus since taxpayers already pay for the  US post office

I believe fuel cost are regular calculated into what the government pays the post office

and remember they are only services that delivers to everywhere in the US (even the boondocks out in the middle

of nowhere get mail service

Answer 7

Not just fuel, but government money in general.

But too many jobs depend on the post office, and their employees' unions are too strong.  So if Congress cut the post office, they would be hurting the economy, which voters wouldn't tolerate.

Answer 8

very good question i think that every other day would be great the fuel cost would be cut in half good idea

Answer 9

This is an excellent idea and, because of that, Royal Mail probably won't adopt it!

To be honest, I had never thought of doing somthing like this - but your idea makes so much sense.