Would You Miss Saturday Mail? I Wouldn't

CNN's Bob Greene seems surprised that 68% of people in a non-scientific poll responded that they would not care if the U.S. Post Office stopped delivering mail on Saturdays. Cutting out that one delivery day would save USPS $3 billion. Greene seems to think we'd come to our senses the evening of the first Saturday we didn't get our mail and holler about: 1. Why are we paying more and more for stamps all the time and we just got our service cut? Isn't that paying more for less? 2. Where are my Netflix movies? First of all, we are paying less for postage than we ever have because we aren't using the postal system. In my modern digital world, it's a rare day when I have to dig up an envelope and a stamp. When I do, I mostly experience massive irritation because I have no idea if the stamps I haven't used in ages are even for the correct amount of postage. Netflix. Well, I gotta have my Netflix movies when I want them, that is for sure. I think most people would just adjust - either be sure they got their watched movies returned so that they'd get new ones by Saturday, or just increase my monthly subscription by one movie per month so they always have a couple on hand. I'm learning that a lot of people are like me. We go to our mailboxes about twice a week, drag all the mail in and flip most of it - junk mail - right into the recycling bin, while the rest of it (which is only a small step up from junk mail) gets put in a pile somewhere for dealing with later, usually much later. As long as the U.S. Mail continues to be a delivery system for junk mail to people who don't want it, I think they will become more and more irrelevant and we'll all just discover more digital ways to get our bill payments, correspondence and movie watching done.