9 Reasons The Postal Service Is Not Obsolete Yet

The Postal Service may no longer deliver letters on Saturdays, but that doesn't mean its services are not important.

In fact, the world would be a sad place without the post office and much of what it does would be sorely missed.

Check out these 9 reasons why the Postal Service is not obsolete yet:

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Although the post office announced that it would no longer deliver letters on Saturdays, the reality is that it will still be around five days a week.

For 100 years the post office has accepted children's letters to Santa Claus. Postal "elves" sort through the hundreds of thousands of letters every year and identify those that express "serious need," according to the USPS website.

Depending on where you want to ship something, you can save big bucks by choosing the post office over FedEx or UPS.

The post office handled 5.6 million passport applications in 2011, according to its website.

Where Internet access is sparse and people can't rely on email, post offices play an integral role in communication. Close to 80 percent of the post offices that may be closed are in areas where poverty rates are higher than the national average, Reuters reports.

The Postal Service has 546,000 career employees, according to its website.

On January 23, the Postal Service started accepting applications for 400 new positions in Indiana.

The post office recently honored Rosa Parks with a new stamp. Hundreds of people gathered for the big unveiling, according to Yahoo! News.

Handwriting used to be essential to personal improvement and the key to understanding someone, the Wall Street Journal reports. A 1989 study at the University of Virginia discovered that addressing bad handwriting in schools had a positive effect on reading and word recognition skills.

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