But the economic storm in the nation may be the one thing to change that.

As the U.S. Postal Service looks for ways to cut costs, officials there have asked the Senate to change the six day a week delivery requirement to five days.

The idea is in the early stages and government officials currently have no plans to reduce delivery to five days.

Still, the prospect hasn't quite received the stamp of approval.

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The postmaster general testified before a Senate subcommittee that cutting the lightest day of mail delivery could save the post office $1.9 billion to $3.5 billion per year. He said the savings is essential, going that it lost $2.8 billion last year and the losses are expected to get worse.

There is no mention of cutting jobs, and local people said they would not want that to happen.

"(Between) gas mileage and everything else as much as they drive around, (this could) save them some money plus less hours on the payroll," said Jeff Parsons, of Wheeling.

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