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A Day in Three (Surreal) Parts
August 24, 2020 by Historian Heather Cox Richardson In Contempt of Congress Postmaster General Louis DeJoy appeared before the House of Representatives today to explain recent changes to the United States Postal Service. Those changes—removal of sorting machines and postboxes, and an end to overtime hours, for example—have drastically slowed mail delivery. Undelivered mail has […]
Continue readingPostal Service Is Fundamental to Democracy
Trump calls the U.S. Postal Service “a joke.” Washington and Jefferson would disagree. Like with most things, this president has his history wrong. Since the founding of our country, the Postal Service has been as serious and as fundamental to our democracy as it gets. A recent New York Times article embraced by Joe Biden […]
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