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And a happy President's Day to you, too. I like President's Day because it means cartoon images of Abe and George being used to sell everthing from Hummers to bedsheets.

In case you wondered, here is the post office's 2004 schedule of mail holidays, DI-rect from usps.gov to you:

Monday, January 19 - Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday
Monday, February 16 - Washington's Birthday (President's Day)
Monday, May 31 - Memorial Day
Monday, July 5 - Independence Day
Monday, September 6 - Labor Day
Monday, October 11 - Columbus Day
Thursday, November 11 - Veterans Day
Thursday, November 25 - Thanksgiving Day
Saturday, December 25 - Christmas Day
Saturday, January 1, 2005 - New Year's Day

That's 10 days without credit-card offers. Which is like 10 days without sunshine.

What does it mean that the first half of the year has only four mail holidays but the second half has six?