Donald Trump's opposition is nothing new. From the founding, the mail has knitted the country together.
may be unprecedented, the US post office — and the values it embodies — has frequently been in the political crosshairs. The post office has always been the public network by which the United States built its common political culture — and fought over just what that culture would be."The mail is a uniquely public institution at the national level," historian David Henkin, author ofAnd from the start, that institution has been under threat.
Drawing on what was then the height of technology — the steam-powered printing presses — they sent what one estimate put at 175,000 separate pieces of mail, roughly equal to the entire output of Southern periodicals during the same time, to 20,000 Southerners. .
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