CENTRAL FLORIDA -- Eyewitness News learned that hundreds of local postal workers could lose their jobs so the postal service can save money.

The US Postal Service wants to cut back the number of days they deliver mail from six days per week to five.

"What did you get in the mail today, Judy?" asked WFTV reporter Darrell Greene.

"Junk!" responded resident Judy Issacs.

Issacs says checking her mail box is a habit, but one she could easily break.

"Would a five day delivery week bother you?" Greene asked.

"Not a bit! Not a bit at all. Sometimes I check the mail and there's nothing in there," she said.

The postmaster general has asked congress for approval to remove language in the postal service's agreement with the government that requires six days of delivery, citing the dwindling usage of regular mail by Americans in favor of email and other services.

"We deliver through rain and sleet and snow, but I guess not through email," said Steve Morse of the American Postal Workers' Union.

Morse told WFTV that it's not as simple as cutting out one work day. The economic impact of cutting what would amount to hundreds of employees in Central Florida alone would off-set any savings and could easily be the beginning of the end of the Postal Service.

"From the union's perspective, going to the five day delivery week is just a bad idea for business," asked Greene.

"Absolutely, it makes no sense business wise to cut service and expect to stay in business," replied Morse. "No business in the world has ever cut service and survived."

Representatives from the postal service refused to be interviewed, saying it's too early to predict the consequences of any proposals.

However, some mail carriers said if the mail continues down the path towards a shorter work week, the mail as we know it will disappear.

The US Postal Service is projecting a loss of nearly $6 billion by the end of its fiscal year. The post master general says cutting service to five days would save more than $3.5 billion per year nationally.

Beyond cutting delivery services, it's also exploring early retirement packages and work-hour reductions as ways to cut that deficit.