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The USPS has endured decades of fuckery thanks to the brush-war that led to the passage of the 2006 bill that made America's unglamorous, essential, universal, self-funding agency nominally broke, forcing it to prefund pension liabilities for 75 years in the future.
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But the brush-war became a full-blown hostility thanks to the confluence of two factors:
I. Trump's appointing of a predatory swamp-gator to run the agency (Loius DeJoy, a wealthy Trump donor with tens of millions invested in private logistics firms that compete with USPS)
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I. Trump's appointing of a predatory swamp-gator to run the agency (Loius DeJoy, a wealthy Trump donor with tens of millions invested in private logistics firms that compete with USPS)
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II. Trump's realization that this year's election would be almost entirely run by postal ballot, that this would increase voter turnout, and that this would deliver a humiliating electoral pasting to him and other GOP grifters who rely on voter suppression to win office.
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All of a sudden, we've got post office mania! I am not immune. But the post office is a big, complicated system with a long and nuanced history, and its tale is wilder that a mere high-profile skirmish with Fedex investors and neofascist dictators.
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Enter The Mail, a new weekly newsletter from @Motherboard's @A_W_Gordon that will tell the story of the postal service, running from now until the election.
https://themail.substack.com/p/introducing-the-mail-a-newsletter
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https://themail.substack.com/p/introducing-the-mail-a-newsletter
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As befits a postal-obsessed new publication, The Mail will also have a monthly companion zine, physically published on paper, stapled, put into envelopes and sent to your home via the loving offices of your unionized letter carrier.
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"The zines will be put together by the entire Motherboard staff, and will focus on digital security, hacking, internet ephemera, labor, and will generally be intended to inform and delight."
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