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Sunday, February 10, 2013

No Mail Saturdays, Liquor Sales on Sundays, Widening 494 and Pizza Wars: Pick of Our Patches

Also appearing in this week's West Metro news roundup: Anne of Green Gables and some really rich SuperValu folks. And the USPS says farewell to Saturdays.

Editor’s Note: Every week we bring you a sampling of stories from Patch sites in the west metro: Eden Prairie, Edina, Fridley, Golden Valley, Hopkins, Lake Minnetonka, Maple Grove, Minnetonka, Plymouth, Richfield, Southwest Minneapolis, St. Louis Park and St. Michael. (Click on the headline to read the full story.) Should Liquor Be Sold on Sundays? Local liquor stores have opposing views on a bill to lift the ban on Sunday liquor sales in Minnesota. “The fact that I'm not allowed to be open because of an embarassing, Draconian, ridiculous law from a previous era is absolutely infuriating," said liquor store owner Jason Alvey. "Al Capone has been dead for a long time, people. This is a different world we live in today.” MnDOT Shares Plans …

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Should Liquor Be Sold on Sundays?, MnDOT Shares Plans to Upgrade 494 in Plymouth (in Plymouth Patch), End of USPS Saturday Mail Delivery Leaves St. Michael Post Office Uncertain (in St. Michael Patch), and 12 more ›

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Saturday Mail Delivery to End, Postal Service Announces

The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. How will this affect you?

  • GOVERNMENT
  • Wednesday, February 6

Calling the six-days-per-week mail delivery business model “no longer sustainable,” the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday morning announced it will eliminate Saturday delivery of mail by Aug. 1. The plan to change delivery from six days a week to five would only affect first-class mail. Packages, mail-order medicines, priority and express mail would still be delivered on Saturdays. Local post offices that are already open on Saturdays, such as the Hopkins Post Office, would remain open. According to the U.S. Postal Service, the reasons are continued economic struggles and the increasing use of the Internet for communications and bill paying by consumers. The U.S. Postal Service is also the only federal agency required to pre-fund health …

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