BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
After seeing record losses in the past fiscal year and forecasts of more to come, the Post Office has confirmed that they will be stopping first class mail deliveries later in 2013.
The United States Postal Service plans to move to five day a week deliveries for everything except packages.
An Associated Press story in the New Jersey Herald reported that the USPS lost $15.9 billion during its last budget year but expects to save $2 billion annually by eliminating the Saturday deliveries. Package deliveries for the Post Office have gone up by 14 percent since 2010.
Congress, which controls the Postal Service, has prohibited five-day delivery in its appropriations bill. But because the federal government is now operating under a temporary spending measure, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the USPS believes it can make the cutback on its own, according to NorthJersey.com.
