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Few institutions are as loved, as loathed, so that as historically important as the United States Postal Service, the main topic of this landmark century-spanning cultural, political, and financial history. AMERICA Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its military of 300,000 letter carriers provides 513 million bits of mail, 40 percent of the world's amount. It is a lot more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese and easily outpacing the Germans and Uk. Along with the USPS has a storied record. Founded by Benjamin Franklin, it was the info network that bound far-flung Americans collectively, fostered a typical culture, and helped American business to prosper. An initial school stamp remains one of the biggest bargains ever, and yet the USPS is little by little vanishing. Critics say it is poor and archaic. Email amount is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing. In Neither Snow nor Rainwater, journalist Devin Leonard tackles the interesting, centuries-long record of the USPS, from the first letter providers through Franklin's days and nights, when postmasters exercised with their homes and post streets cut new pathways through the wilderness. Under Andrew Jackson, the postoffice was shaped into an enormous patronage machine, and by the 1870s, over 70 percent of national employees were postal workers. As the united states boomed, USPS aggressively developed new technology, from mobile post offices on railroads and air mail service to mechanical sorting machines and optical figure readers. Neither Snow nor Rainwater is a wealthy, multifaceted history packed with remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS' monopoly on mail to the renegade union users who brought the system - and the united states - to a halt in the 1970s. An exciting and engrossing listen, Neither Snow nor Rainwater is the first major record of the USPS in over 50 years.
