Post office to stop delivering on Saturdays

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Big changes are coming to your mailbox. The Postmaster General of the United States announced today that mail delivery will be reduced to only five days a week.
  
It could be a difficult adjustment for local businesses and you.

Wednesday might be the busiest day at Valley Press. Workers are compiling coupons, ads, and notices that will be sent out to your mailbox.

"We do the mailing for a lot of companies we got out to anywhere between 80,000 to 120,000 households a week,” Sharon Cupp, Valley Press owner said.
    
You can imagine the most efficient way for Sharon Cupp to do her job done is to send them out through the post office.
    
But Wednesday afternoon, the Post Master General of the United States made an announcement that shocked even Sharon.

"Beginning the week of august 5th this year, the postal service delivery schedule will consist of 6 days of package delivery and 5 days of mail," U.S, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said.
    
For Valley Press that affects their ability to get their mailers out. Saturday the Post Office will not even be handling Valley Presses mailers.

"Well now its no longer going to be processed (on Saturday) so once we drop off our mail on Friday its not going to be touched till Monday,” Cupp said.
    
Putting them a day behind on getting their time sensitive ads out. But, the delivery changes reaches beyond their doors.

But, how does this affect you personally?

If you are sending a letter at the end of the week, instead of arriving on Saturday, it'll take until Monday for your letter to reach its destination.
    
Packages still will come through on Saturday, but any important documents you expect to arrive before Monday morning will have to wait.
    
Back at valley press, this change in business is just another issue they've come to expect when dealing with the US postal service.

"They throw you a curveball every now and then and you just have to work around it in order to you know keep in business,” Cupp ended saying.