Post Office Can't Cut Saturday Delivery, Says Government Accountability Office

Magazines were panicked

If the financially strapped U.S. Postal Service wants to cut delivery down to weekdays, it's going to have to convince Congress to pass a law. That's according to the legal opinion from the Government Accountability Office.

After the USPS lost nearly $16 billion in 2012, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced in February that the service would stop Saturday delivery (except for packages) starting in August, setting off a panic in rural communities and among magazine and other media dependent on Saturday delivery.

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