Please, Mr. Postman, come back on Monday 

MPNnow.com — Paring down a budget can be a tough task, as anyone who has tried it knows — from municipal officials preparing their annual spending plans to families plotting out their household spending.

So it’s a rare but welcome occurrence to find a place to cut with a minimum of pain and controversy. But the U.S. Postal Service has done just that as it looks to counter a decline of $238 billion in revenue over the next 10 years. While some of its proposals — the usual rate hikes — are far from popular, another, doing away with Saturday home delivery, seems to be raising little tumult.

“It isn’t an adjustment people can’t make,” Naples resident Ron Kohlstaedt recently told the Messenger, a statement reflective of many responses. “Our world has changed — people use different methods of communication and delivery.”

That there’s relatively little hue and cry over this plan speaks to the reasons behind the revenue shortfall in the first place: It’s a new, wired world, and fewer people avail themselves of the postal service. Many do most of, if not all of their personal — and, increasingly, business — correspondence electronically. Others prefer to use private-sector delivery services to send packages. And some are just sick of paying more and more for stamps.

In an online poll at MPNnow.com: 75 respondents said the had no problem with five-day postal delivery; 34 said they’d miss Saturday delivery.

A number of other countries maintain five-day home delivery — and we may benefit from one step, however small, to demarcate the weekend from our fast-paced, frenetic workweeks.

Besides, would you rather find bills in your mailbox six days a week or five?

Discontinuing Saturday mail delivery is a cost-saving change we can live with.