USPS forbidden—for now—to end Saturday mail delivery

Saturday mail delivery will continue indefinitely, the U.S. Postal Service announced today, despite plans made earlier this year to discontinue weekend delivery of letters beginning Aug. 5. The announcement was made in response to a recently-passed Congressional budget that prohibits the postal service altering its delivery schedule.

Delivery changes cannot take effect until legislation is passed that provides USPS with "authority to implement a financially appropriate and responsible delivery schedule," reads an announcement from the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service found on USPS.com.

The postal service, which continues to operate billions of dollars in the red, announced in early February its intentions for a Monday through Friday mail delivery and Monday through Saturday package delivery beginning in August. The change was expected to save $2 billion annually.