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Postal service is too valuable to let fail
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Texas, on May 13, 2020
Postal service is too valuable to let fail

If any industry has a lovehate relationship with the United States Postal Service, it is the newspaper industry. Our local postal drivers are dependable and get our product to the customer on time and intact, and we know a lot of them by name. But every now and then, we also field calls from our customers

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