SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The U.S. Postal Service plans to slow down delivery of first class mail on Monday as part of cost-cutting efforts in 2015.
First class mail consists of the bills and cards sent through the mail. As customers send more email and pay more bills online, the volume of first class mail has dropped by 53 percent in the last decade.
“Anything that you might imagine that comes in one day now will be delayed to two or three days," said Bradley Todd, a Springfield member of the American Postal Workers Union.
Todd said deliveries across the Ozarks, like a letter from Springfield to Lebanon, used to happen overnight, but that will change Monday.
Read more: U.S. Postal Service to Begin Cuts in Service Monday – OzarksFirst.com.