Saturday Mail Delivery to End, Postal Service Announces
Verona, Cedar Grove residents have mixed emotions on plan to end mail delivery by Aug. 1.
Calling the six-days-per-week mail delivery business model “no longer sustainable,” the U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday 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, and local post offices will remain open for business Saturdays. Some Verona and Cedar Grove residents seemed indifferent, while others have been adamantly against the decision. Outside the Verona post office Wednesday Mary Powers of Verona she can live with the change, but has some concerns about getting bills in time to pay. "I don't mind not getting mail," said Flo DeLuis…
