At JSTOR, Sarah Prager writes about “How Mail Delivery Has Shaped America”:
The story of the US Postal Service uniquely intersects with American history on privacy rights, censorship, reproductive rights, protest, voting, and discrimination and inclusion based on race, gender, and sexual orientation. Next time you mail a bill or a ballot, remember that you’re participating in a centuries-old institution of social change.I keep wondering what will happen to stamps under this new administration. Maybe I need to think of my sheets of Keith Haring and Allen Toussaint stamps as collector’s items.
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I remember a satire from the sixties, "When they come from space," where the hero, a business executive, gets a Kafka order and finds himself in government. My memory is only approximate:
A line read, "I buried my face in hands and said, 'Oh gosh, oh darn, oh fudge." The sentence had an asterisk, the only one in the novel.
Down below the footnote, "No, that's not what I really said, but the post office won't allow any dirty words, not for anyone thinking to use their wholesome postage."
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