Perhaps the Biggest Losers in Today's Postal Service Announcement? Freelancers

The United States Postal Service announced this morning that it plans to eliminate Saturday delivery later this year, which means, for most people, that your recycling bin will no longer receive obsolete catalogs and coupons on the weekend. In today’s digital world, most of the really important stuff now travels electronically: utility bills, bank statements, threatening messages from your landlord.

There’s a small but growing segment of the population, though, that stands to suffer seriously from the move. These are the people – and I whine from years of experience here – who receive 100 percent of their income in old-fashioned paper paychecks that can’t be taken to the bank and deposited, and subsequently spent on rent and cell phone bills and bar tabs, until they turn up in the mail. They're the nation's freelancers.