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The U.S. Postal Service would cut Saturday mail delivery starting in the first half of 2011 under a plan the agency will give its regulator tomorrow.

On this sultry weekend in the middle of August, take a look at what's on your kitchen counter. The Postal Service says it will lose approximately $7 billion this fiscal year. Americans have mailed 20 billion fewer items this year than they did last year. Over the past 20 years, some 200,000 mail-collection boxes have been removed from U.S. streets because not enough people were dropping their letters into them. The Government Accountability Office has officially declared the Postal Service to be a high-risk agency.

Put aside your notion of the weekends as the only reason to wake up on Monday mornings and you'll see that working on Saturday and Sunday can actually be good for you. You just have to change the way you think.