I remember when mail was delivered twice per day

If you drive through any small town upstate, you'll find a convenience store, gas station (sometimes combined) and a post office. They have to cover everyone and everywhere regardless of the profitability of maintaining those offices. I also think the history going back to the pony express reminds you that technology and times change. I get more coupons in email then I ever did via paper mail. The problem now is with the email being on the cell phones I can't get the mail early and hide them from my wife anymore...

Classic example of how a quasi government entity with little to no competition (aside from express mail services) can be mismanaged. They cannot control their cost structure.

I'm okay with that. Less days bills arrive :)

Given what I'd read about the lead-up to this decision, I was a bit surprised that they didn't also kill package delivery on Sat. and possibly even Wed. mail and package delivery (going to a 4-day system). I guess they wanted to send up this trial balloon and test the waters before nixing more services. But those cuts seem likely to follow, as this move to discontinue Sat. regular mail seems to be a small drop in the huge deficit budget of the USPS. So while I'm a bit sad and wistful about changes in historic services that represent a slice of Americana, I understand why they're doing it. As Todd said, they've mismanaged it to the hilt. Part of that may be that they undercharge for first class mail (quite a service, if and when it's done right, and -- to my mind -- worth more than 46 cents). I despise these now-frequent one-or-two-cent increases; why not increase it by a nickel or more at a time, but do so less frequently and disruptively? End of rant; that's my 2 cents (or nickel)....

Some changes are difficult to handle and some like the Post Office eliminating Saturday deliveries are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I wonder when we the people are going to change the 535 Aristocrats who are driving this country into the ground for their own benefit. Difficult or what?

I believe it can be an inconvenience.
I do not support it.
Part of the reason I maintain a PO box is my mail delivery arrives late in the date; mail gets put in the PO box by 10am. Mail will be delivered to PO boxes on Saturdays even with the change.

Thanks, Corey - thinking about a P.O.Box... I live two blocks away from my Post Office

Times change; technology changes, and the Post Office just hasn't kept up with realities on the ground. It's grossly over-staffed, loses a fortune every year and its labor force is, for the most part, intransigent. However, the Post Office is mandated by the Constitution, and was for the first 150 years of this Republic, a big money-maker for the federal government (imagine that!). As others have noted, it mostly delivers junk mail today, as more and more people are paying bills on-line. I'd argue that privatization would be in the best interest of the country.

President Reagan once said that the closest thing to eternal life is a federal government program...

I think that mail is antiquated and should not be a governmental program run at a deficit. In this day and age, there is no more reason to do mass mailings. Raise the price until it is solvent. Privatizing even better. People can say that it has been mismanaged, but I remember as a kid that that the Post Office was a running joke on Carson. That is a long time ago and the U.S. Postal service is no longer the considered a societal joke. We save those now for the Kardashians (see cover of NY Post).