What a delightful book that works it’s way through the history of the USPS from before the constitution until current times. I’d intended to wait until I finished it before providing a full review but I came upon the following during the section about the mid 1800’s regarding congress’s bias towards the small local newspapers and felt I had to share.
“However, the rural papers were often highly partisan supporters of the local congressman, who could be counted on to represent in Washington their constituents’ deep suspicion of city slickers and their supposedly radical politics and immoral ways.”
I guess the folks in flyover (stagecoach-over)? country have always been suspicious of us city slickers.
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Originally Posted by jp1
