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The US Post Office<\/a> is the Amtrak of our children\u2019s generation. It has outlived its usefulness but, because of its sheer size, its momentum will carry it forward another hundred years. There are union jobs to protect but more than that there is the nostalgia of the mailman. I\u2019ve been writing about is for at least a decade. See link above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A month or so ago the anti-Trumpers charged that the Trump forces were conspiring to suppress the Vote by Mail ballots. This is unlikely to be true because the postal workers are overwhelmingly Democrats and the Trump people can barely organize lunch.
It reminded me of what Colin Powell said to Bush the younger about Iraq. \u201cIf you break it you bought it.\u201d I\u2019m afraid the Democrats have bought the Post Office.
Denmark has gone to once a week delivery. We can\u2019t even stop Saturday delivery.
The photo is of an English postbox, we call it a mailbox,. It is a Postcrossing<\/a> card I received from the UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US Post Office is the Amtrak of our children\u2019s generation. It has outlived its usefulness but, because of its sheer size, its momentum will carry it forward another hundred years. There are union jobs to protect but more than that there is the nostalgia of the mailman. I\u2019ve been writing about is for at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[311,79,137],"class_list":["post-14978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-free-postcards","tag-politics","tag-post-office","tag-postcards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3TA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14980,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978\/revisions\/14980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}