Post Office can't legally drop Saturday mail service, says Congressional oversight office

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), which investigates public expenditures for the US Congress, says a Post Office plan to drop Saturday mail delivery doesn't satisfy its legal obligations. In a letter, GAO General Counsel Susan Poling writes that an earlier rule requiring six-day delivery should be considered to extend into 2013, despite the Post Office's argument to the contrary. Since the 1980s, Congress has written in funding for the Post Office on the condition that it maintain the same service level as 1983 — which means six days of mail delivery a week. In 2012, that rule was extended, but the Post Office has said that since a later 2012 budget bill didn't specifically include the provision and the funds were never... Continue reading…