People of Agency

Benjamin Franklin used the Post Office to coordinate a revolution. The British Crown used it to spy on colonists. It's never been "just mail." It's always been about power.

Everyone says the Post Office failed to innovate, that it didn't adapt to the modern world that it's stuck in the past. But that's not what happened. The Post Office tried to innovate constantly and it was blocked at every turn

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Mary Katharine Goddard printed the first official Declaration of Independence with ALL signers' names. Then the Continental Congress fired her for being a woman. Institutions serve whoever controls them. Check out Episode 1 today.

You can't reassemble a sorting machine you threw in a dumpster three weeks ago. Federal judge issues nationwide injunction, says it's "voter disenfranchisement." Despite it all, postal workers delivered 99.89% of ballots on time. (4/4)

When union leaders ask why, they're told the machines are "no longer needed." While mail volume is surging for COVID packages and mail-in voting. By the time DeJoy announces he's "suspending" the changes, the machines are already gone. (3/4)

Each machine processes 35,000 pieces of mail per hour. 711 machines removed in a few months. That's double the normal annual rate. 10% of entire national sorting capacity. Gone. Three months before a presidential election. During a pandemic. (2/4)

🧵 THREAD: August 2020. Postal workers start taking photos because they can't believe what they're seeing. Sorting machines sitting on asphalt behind facilities. Some cut up with blowtorches. This is the DeJoy era. (1/4)

The post office was sabotaged.

in rural areas the postal worker is the only federal employee that they see regularly Postal workers know their routes They know if Mrs Johnson's mail is piling up and something might be wrong They know if there's a package that needs to fit in the mailbox in a certain way

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SO important! if you're interested in diving deeper into the fascinating history of USPS and corporate capture threat it faces, please check out our podcast pod.link/1849228526

SO important! if you're interested in diving deeper into the fascinating history of USPS and corporate capture threat it faces, please check out our podcast pod.link/1849228526

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