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Saturday Mail Delivery to End, Postal Service Announces
The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. Speak out: How will this affect you?
Calling the six-days-per-week mail delivery business model “no longer sustainable,” the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday morning announced it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1. The plan to change delivery from six days a week to five would only affect first-class mail. Packages, mail-order medicines, priority and express mail would still be delivered on Saturdays. The Niles Post Office, 6977 W. Oakton Road, and Morton Grove Post Office, 9114 Waukegan Road, will remain open on Saturdays. Niles Post Office Saturday hours are 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Morton Grove's hours are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. According to the U.S. Postal Service, the reasons are continued economic struggles and the increasing use of the Internet for communications …
