Burrus Responds: Not Giving Up on Six-Day Delivery

Long-time postal union leader William Burrus objected today to a Dead Tree Edition article that indicated he might be giving up on trying to preserve Saturday delivery. Burrus' blog post—“Pick Your Fight”—was clearly a response to my article Sunday called “Throwing in the Towel on 5-Day Delivery?” In the interest of fairness, Dead Tree Edition is republishing his entire commentary below, along with some comments [in brackets].

One of the web sites that focuses on postal issues [that would be Dead Tree Edition] recently suggests that I favor "throwing in the towel" on five-day delivery by supporting the Obama plan for