Neither Rain, nor Snow, nor...

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All these years I thought the Postal Serice's Motto was something to the effect of: Neither snow, nor rain, nor sleet shall keep us from delivering the mail. After looking it up, I find that not only did I not have it verbatim, but it was never the motto of the Postal Service. Yesterday, after we got dumped on by the storm system that came up from Texas, we had about four inches of snow topped by ice. We took time to use the snow blower and clean off the driveway and sidewalks. I also shoveled the porch, steps and a portion of the ramp. The snow was so heavy that I didn't do the whole ramp yesterday. We didn't get any mail, and my husband thought it was because I didn't shovel the whole ramp. I told him that wouldn't stop them because they've come through before we've even shoveled at all in the past, and I thought they would because of that slogan. I found out this morning, when the mail was delivered, that when roads are not plowed they are told to refrain from going down them. Our mail lady did check again when she finished her route to see if our roads were finally plowed, but because they were not, she didn't chance it. Their trucks are quite light and would get stuck very easily. Makes sense to me. Did those of you living in the US realize that the Postal Service didn't have this for their motto? I think the reason many of us think this way is because one office put something similar to that on their building after it was built.