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The United States Postal Service is overworked and under-funded.
Jeff Van Drew /
Postal Service
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My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
Uwe Boll / Film Producer
Favourite
Games
Incorrect
Politically Incorrect
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It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
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There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.
Don Novello / Writer
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The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.
Diane Watson / Former U.s. Representative
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I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.
Shiva Ayyadurai /
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Dies
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Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.
John M. Mchugh / Former United States Representative
Postal Service
Reform
Years Ago
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We're trying to do for the national security apparatus what FedEx did for the postal service.
Erik Prince /
National Security
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The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
Important
Institutions
People
Postal Service
Saved
American People
People Important American
Institution
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The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.
Richard J. Needham / Columnist
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Normal
Return
Strikes
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The Postal Service exists to serve every American, regardless of where you live or what you believe.
Conor Lamb /
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I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
Fredrik Bajer / Writer
Propose
Unions
Universal
Bureau
Somewhat
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
Pat Paulsen / Comedian
Running
Government
Federal Government
Half
Mail
Millions
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Federal
Lose
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The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
Elizabeth Warren / United States Senator
Complicated
Employing
Postal Service
Million People
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Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.
Shiva Ayyadurai /
Letters
Mail
Postal
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Predicted
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If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.
Shiva Ayyadurai /
Democratic
Founding
Postal Service
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Fathers
Founding Fathers
Origins
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The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.
Joe Baca / Former U.s. Representative
Addresses
Mail
Numbers
Postal Service
Years
Address
Nearly
Increases
Million
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Six Days
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Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
John M. Mchugh / Former United States Representative
Commitment
Expectations
Motto
Postal Service
Well Known
Abide
American
Although
Deliver
Expectation
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Service
Unofficial
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Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service.
Gnash /
Cab
Postal Service
Associated
Ben
Biggest
Definitely
Influences
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Service
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If you think about what the Postal Service fundamentally does, those guys are trained to get mail and sort mail - there's trust verification.
Shiva Ayyadurai /
Mail
Postal Service
Verification
Fundamentally
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The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Chinese
Democracy
Indie Rock
Postal Service
Rocks
Threatening
Album
Indie
Rock
Postal
Second
Service
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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Carrier
Grandma
Mail
Time Good Mother
Herself
Member
Postal
Union
Rural
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Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
Henry Rollins / Musician
Great American
Jazz
Jazz Music
Miles
Perfect
Postal Service
Two
Davis
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Stamp
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The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
Joe Baca / Former U.s. Representative
Business
Ability
America
Household
Infrastructure
Six
Days
Nation
Postal
Unmatched
Reach
Service
Six Days
Vital
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There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
Joe Jamail /
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Arrogant
Corporate
Corporate America
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Mail
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Self Centered
People America More
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As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
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Class
Decline
Digital
Digital Age
Mail
New Business
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Business Model
Develop
Model
No Question
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Result
Service
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The Postal Service is critical to our economy, our seniors and veterans who count on lifesaving medications, our small businesses that need to ship their products, and even to our democracy.
Sharice Davids /
Critical
Democracy
Economy
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Products
Businesses
Count
Small
Medications
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Seniors
Service
Small Businesses
Veterans
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At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
Administration
Benefits
Health Benefits
Insistence
Legislation
Postal Service
Bush
Bush Administration
Passed
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Required
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Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.
John Battelle / Author
Trust
Correspondence
Microsoft
Postal Service
Secured
Aol
Facebook
Institution
Postal
Prior
Private
Service
Yahoo
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More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.
Shah Rukh Khan /
Believer
Cinema
Entertainment
Honestly
Messages
Postal Service
Great Believer
Performer
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Send
Service
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Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.
Debra Granik / Film Director
Code
Ordinary
Penny
Postal
Rarely
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In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.
Lucy Powell / British Politician
Manchester
Vote
People More Who
Choosing
Likely
Local
Post
Postal
Third
Votes
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I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.
Billy Koch /
Gold
Postal Service
Fleet
Foot
Glove
Guess
Jump
Least
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As a trusted institution with brick-and-mortar facilities in every corner of the United States, our public Postal Service is uniquely positioned to serve as a communications, finance, and service hub for the 21st century.
Marcia Fudge /
Finance
Hub
Postal Service
Trusted
Communications
Corner
Facilities
Institution
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Uniquely
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Hermes scarf designers can be found in places from Poland to Japan, not to mention the U.S. post-office sorting room in Waco, Texas. Kermit Oliver, a longtime postal employee, has designed more than a dozen Hermes scarves.
Christina Binkley /
Dozen
Employee
Japan
Poland
Sorting
Texas
Designed
Longtime
Mention
Oliver
Room
Places
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There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
Function
Medicare
Postal Service
Public Education
Social Security
Special Interests
Wealthy
Performs
Postal
Privatize
Virtually
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Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
Heinrich Böll / Writer
Cologne
Employee
Fixed
Shifting
Statistics
Summer
Temporary
Writer
Address
Bureau
Continually
Freelance
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Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans.
John M. Mchugh / Former United States Representative
House
Legislation
Outstanding
Postal Service
Reality
Reform
Resolve
Senate
Vote
Now
All Americans
Bring
Conference
Forward
Passed
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But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.
John M. Mchugh / Former United States Representative
Century
Challenges
Communicate
Faces
Keys
Land
Postal Service
Traditional
Across
Affairs
American
American Businesses
Mr
Businesses
Cog
Conduct
Still
Place
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Service
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Unfortunately, my colleagues in Congress have unfairly burdened the Postal Service with a costly, unfunded mandate to pre-pay health care for retirees. No other agency or business has to pay these costs in advance - and neither should the Postal Service.
Marcia Fudge /
Agency
Colleagues
Congress
Health Care
Pay
Postal Service
Advance
Burdened
Costly
Unfortunately
Mandate
Neither
Postal
Retirees
Service
Unfairly
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With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods.
Elizabeth Warren / United States Senator
Banking
Branches
Critical
Workers
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Banks
Offices
Partner
Post
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Services
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The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.
John Sununu / Former United States Senator
Advertising
Computing
Core
Force
Internet
Obsolete
Products
Social
Years Ago
Cloud
Destroys
Networks
Exist
Creates
Dollar
Industries
Postal
Rendered
Search
Service
Social Networks
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I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Day To Day
Employed
Framework
Letters
People
Postal Service
Writing
Entities
Suppose
Postal
Provide
Workings
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Major reforms include optimisation of the Signals establishments, restructuring of repair echelons, redeployment of ordnance echelons, better utilisation of supply and transport echelons, besides closure of military farms, and Army postal establishments in peace locations.
Nirmala Sitharaman /
Army
Closure
Farms
Restructuring
Signals
Transport
Besides
Establishments
Include
Reforms
Locations
Postal
Repair
Supply
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My old man works in the postal service, my mum in a hospital and my brother in a factory. They're my family and when I play rugby I'm representing them. But coming out was different. More than anyone, I feared for my father. I used to be a postman myself and so I know that working environment.
Gareth Thomas /
Old Man
Postal Service
Representing
Rugby
Family Myself Man
Factory
Feared
Hospital
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When I first started touring, we had a crappy van, and we would all share rooms. So for many years as a grown adult woman, I would share a bed with a bandmate, whether it would be Jimmy Tamborello from the Postal Service or Pierre De Reeder from Rilo Kiley, just a pillow barrier between us sleeping on the same bed.
Jenny Lewis / Singer-Songwriter
Jimmy
Postal Service
Rooms
Touring
Barrier
Crappy
Grown
Pierre
Postal
Sleeping
Van
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If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant because of how quickly people are suddenly able to communicate, and letters actually arrive at the intended time, and they arrive to the correct recipient. All of this is really important to a plot.
Sally Rooney /
Communicate
Letters
Plot
Postal Service
Significant
Arrive
Time History Look
Correct
Intended
Letter
Postal
Recipient
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The United States Postal Service is one of America's oldest and most well-loved institutions. Thanks to the Postal Service, families can send letters and packages to loved ones they have not seen in months, small businesses are able to ship products to their customers, and many veterans and seniors can safely receive lifesaving medications.
Lucy Mcbath /
Able
America
Customers
Institutions
Letters
Loved Ones
Months
Packages
Postal Service
Products
States
Thanks
United States
Seen
Businesses
Loved
Families
Small
Medications
Oldest
Postal
Receive
Safely
Send
Service
Small Businesses
Veterans
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We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
Julian Assange / Journalist
Legal
Databases
Format
Inevitable
Information
Mail
News
Organization
Political
Release
Talking
Against
Quite
Attacks
Public
Defend
Giant
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Vet
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