The Chicago Sun-Times reported the Post Office plans to cut Saturday mail delivery in August.

When the topic of the Post Office’s discontinuing Saturday mail deliver raised its head in March of 2010, I wrote the folowing article:

Politicians Win If No Saturday Mail

When the idea was surfaced again by a Postal worker at one of Joe Walsh’s many coffees, I wrote another article with the same title:

Politicians Win If No Saturday Mail

Walsh indicated that protecting government jobs was not top on his priority list.

Now, Postal officials are saying that next August, Saturday delivery will end.

A result of growing up in the 1940’s is that I remember the mailman coming to deliver mail twice a day–once in the morning and, again, in the afternoon.

Now, it seems that regular delivery will be five days a week.

So, how does that help politicians?

During the last two weeks of the campaign season, properly tagged political mail is treated like First Class mail, even though Third Class postage has been paid.

I guess it’s a public subsidy of the electoral process.

But, the problem for campaigns is that bulk mail taken to the Post Office on Friday usually gets delivered on Saturday.

Folks running campaigns would prefer that it be delivered on Monday, the day before the election.

And starting with elections held after August, that will be the case.

So, political types will be happy with the discontinuance of Saturday mail delivery…even if they are Democrats who say they want to protect the jobs in U.S. Postal System.