The United States Postal Service announced that it would be ending Saturday deliveries as of August 2013. The decision is partly financial—it will save a couple billion dollars—but then, the post office wouldn’t be going broke if not for a series of legislative mandates so absurd that they make the decision to sponsor Lance Armstrong look almost prudent. On the theory, though, that the deliverers of the mail would rather that we laugh with them than at them, we’ve put together a slide show of New Yorker covers about the mail