The US Postal Service’s board of governors approved the agency’s request on March 24 to move to a five-day home delivery schedule. Today the USPS presented the plan to the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC).

Under the revised plan, the USPS would deliver and process Express Mail seven days a week, but eliminate Saturday delivery of both regular and Priority Mail. It would also eliminate some of the processing it now does on Saturdays however Post Offices would continue to be open for walk in business with working hours on Saturdays.

A Gallup poll showed that 69 percent of all Americans were agreeable to a five-day schedule if it would mean stable postage rates. If the PRC and Congress approve the plan, it would be implemented by mid-2011 at the earliest.

— Joe Vitangeli, Accurate Mailings