Elderly yawn at end of Sat. delivery

But many people just don't care in the Southern California community where life slowly revolves around golf, card games and splashing in a heated pool.

Now there's email for letter-writing and Facebook for keeping in touch with friends and relatives. And there's snail mail for ... Well, for what, really?

"All we get anymore are bills," said Leisure World resident Albert Rodriguez, 83, a retired bus driver.

Some older people might remember the days of waiting anxiously for the Sears catalog or the Saturday Evening Post.

But those days died long before the U.S. Postal Service announcement this week that it plans to kill Saturday deliveries except for packages.

Many of the 9,000 people who live at Leisure World, a seaside village in the suburbs of Los Angeles, have no problem with forgoing bills until Monday.

Sure, the change might require putting checks in the mail a bit sooner to pay those bills, but that shouldn't be a problem for a generation brought up to pay its debts on time.

"I've never lived paycheck-to-paycheck," said 86-year-old Yehuda Keller. "I wasn't raised that way."

Still, he said he will miss thumbing through Saturday's mail because it's something he has always done. His wife actually enjoys sorting through junk mail to look for bargains.

In days gone by, waiting for the mail was a happy ritual for many, especially when they were expecting a new catalog.

"Oh my God, my grandma depended on those," said 77-year-old Lynette Waltner, adding the Lane Bryant catalog was the favorite.

Like many seniors, Waltner still pays her bills by snail mail because she doesn't trust online transactions. She doesn't email much either.

But the idea of waiting around on a Saturday to see if an important letter might arrive?

Forget about it.

"I'd rather play golf," she said with a laugh as she climbed back into her pickup truck after a round of golf and quick stop at a store.