United States Postal Service: Need for Reform Schooling

One of the big ticket items is the USPS reducing delivery from six days a week to five. Corbett estimates the postal service could save about $3 billion a year in costs as a result of the reduction, about 10 percent of the $30 billion it spends annually on delivery. Mail processing would still continue on this second non-delivery day, he notes, which accounts for the cost discrepancy of removing one-sixth of delivery days (17 percent) while saving 10 percent.