So, what would happen if USPS decided to reduce or cut Saturday delivery service?  According to some investigative research on this very question by Pablo Paster of Treehugger, the atmosphere might become a much cleaner place.

Currently, USPS drivers spend a total of 1.2 billion miles on the road each year and 90% is attributed to letter delivery.  “Cutting six days of home delivery service to five days would cut the miles driven by delivery operations by 1/6th, or 167 million miles.”  Potential savings of GHG emissions to our atmosphere due to this cut back would be around 211 million pounds per day.

Sounds like a pretty good idea.

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