B.H.B. Hubbard, III. irvington. There is a great deal of upset regarding the possible elimination of Saturday mail deliveries - as well there should be. I hark back to the days of the one-cent postcard that could be filled out and mailed in the morning and delivered in the second delivery of the day. There are several solutions to today's situation, all of which contain the common sense that escapes bureaucracies. The number of unsolicited catalogues each home gets is outrageous.
Every mail brings cataloguess that are never looked at and never bought from.
If the cost of delivery were raised to reflect the expense of handling them, the mailings would stop. I can recall when the post office started delivering them for a fraction of the cost of handling them. Before, magazines were sold like newspapers and delivered by people who had routes. I had a route for the Saturday Evening Post. It was a good job for young people and put a few nickles in the pocket and let the mail service do what it was supposed to do - deliver the mail.