"Neither Rain nor snow nor.......budget cuts?"

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat of day nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." The above is often quoted as the motto or creed of the U.S. Postal Service. I guess back in the days when this was originally written, it never occurred to our forefathers to include the words, "budget cuts."

I bring this up because the rumor is the Postal Service is thinking about stopping Saturday deliveries. To that I idea I give a rousing "SO WHAT?" Did you ever get anything even semi important in your Saturday mail? All I get these days (surely due to my advanced age) are invitations to seminars at the local Holiday Inn designed to make me a gazillion dollars with a four buck investment, discount coupons for hearing aids, fliers from AARP, and those freebie local magazines with titles like, Southwest, MetroWest, Northeast, and Up Your Street. Oh, and how could we forget those ubiquitous catalogs from JC Penney? Is there a day goes by when they AREN'T having a sale? (Forget the sales, just give me half the money they spent on catalogs!)

So the Postal Service is considering halting mail delivery on Saturdays.

My question is: Will we be able to tell the difference?