Regardless of the impact of the internet and other various means of communication, mail delivery is still extremely vital to many Americans for different reasons. The USPS is a business, but not all businesses operate only Monday through Friday.
For a lot of people, the mail is just as necessary as a visit to the doctor. The doctor’s office schedules visits on Saturdays and sometimes even Sundays if it’s needed. Everyone would think it would be unacceptable to expect other businesses to not operate on the weekends because they’re needed those days of the week. The post office isn’t any different.
Many of the arguments on the NPR site seem to center around the lack of necessity of the post office because communication is now available through a variety of other means. However, it fails to address the fact that many of these other means are not available to everyone. Poor Americans, for example, might not be able to afford the internet, a computer, a fax machine, or transportation to a library or other facility where these exist.
Americans should be entitled to have reliable postal service to handle their communication transactions. For a lot of people, the postal service is their only way of communicating with personal business services, bills, and other vitally important services. Just because most businesses get the weekend off doesn’t mean the USPS should operate the same way. Just because people privileged and rich enough to have other communication options think it’s unnecessary doesn’t mean that the people that still must rely on the mail service for their communication shouldn’t be able to receive their mail as often as possible.
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