VIDEO: What If Mail Delivery Were Reduced To Five Days A Week?

A group of senators, including U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, ID-Conn., proposed a plan Wednesday, which would help the United States Post Office become solvent over the next two years. The plan highlights a buyout for 100,000 employees and restructures the organizaton's health and retirement plans. Also, the USPS is prohibited from reducing mail delivery from five to six days a week for at least two years and until it can work out a solution that serves the industries disproportionately affected by a reduction in mail delivery.

"The Postal Service is the linchpin of a $1.1 trillion mailing and mail-related industry that employs approximately 8.7 million Americans in fields as diverse as direct mail, printing, catalog companies, and paper manufacturing," according to a statement released on Lieberman's website.

But, all postal mail consumers will be directly affected by changes sooner than two years. Beginning Jan. 22, the price of first class stamps will increase by one cent to 45 cents and stamps for postcards will increase by three cents to 32 cents.