Thanks bmorgan for your kind words. Sometimes, the US Postal Service takes some hits - deserved or not. I just want you all to know, that the letter carriers that I work with are wonderful people who really care. We are just another government entity, but we are self sustaining. We don't get one dime of support from taxpayers. The Canadians are upset with their postal service, because they went thru privatization. Their postal service is now profit driven. The US Postal Service has what we call universal service. That means, that everyone gets service everyday for one price. When private companies get into the mix, they can pick and choose the most profitable areas. Big cities are easy, rural areas get service when the companies can arrange the most profitalble time to deliver. I'm not saying the US Postal Service is perfect, but sometimes a government run entity can be the better alternative. By the way, 99% of letter carriers in the US want to keep our service running 6 days a week. If we had Saturday off, Mondays would be a bear - the mail would keep moving 7 days a week, but we would only have 5 days to deliver it! I would be working 12 hours on Monday, 10 hours on Tuesday thru Thursday, then maybe catch up on Friday. Of course, I would have Saturday and Sunday off, but Monday would start the whole thing over again!