Most Americans give the U.S. Postal Service high marks for getting mail to far-flung corners of the country, but it's struggling from the coronavirus.
In rural and hard-to-reach areas, postal workers are the only ones who provide regular delivery service.
Alvin Fields moved back to his block of two-story row homes after 40 years working for Verizon. Jason Saal, 40, lives in an abandoned factory he bought for an art studio, but now hopes to make industrial-grade masks there. They agreed that the neighborhood, one of Philadelphia’s poorest, would benefit from the kind of expanded services — such as low-fee check cashing and wifi — that’s the norm in European post office and might help U.S. ones to survive.
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