Post office wanting to stop Saturday mail delivery

[Cinder & Smoke]

When you get your magazines dogeared and torn up?
(It happens now, but it's going to get worse)

... it's the new equipment they have handling flats in some areas,
which actually increase the cost per piece for handling,
increases damaged mail by 50%, ...

Izzat Why some magazines and even some catalogs are now wrapped in
"protective" plastic baggies?

MORE plastic to dispose of!

[Lady's Human]

That's precisely why more and more are being wrapped in plastic.

They used to be hand fed into the sorting machines, one at a time. Inefficient, but the mail didn't get damaged much.

Now they are fed into the machines automatically, and if the piece isn't lined up perfectly with the feed mechanism, well................stuff happens.