Can the Postal Service Survive the Pandemic?

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The U.S. Postal Service has survived the telegraph, the fax machine and the dawn of the internet. But will it survive coronavirus? Guests: Nicholas Fandos, who covers Congress for The New York Times and Derek Harpe, a Postal Service worker with a mail route in Mocksville, N.C. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: With the coronavirus threatening the Postal Service’s financial viability, a rescue for the organization has become a political battle.

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0:00.0	Hey, is this Derek Harp?
0:02.6	Hey, how are you?
0:03.8	I'm good.
0:05.0	Derek, I want to start by asking you,
0:07.6	if you could tell me about your first ever memory of the Postal Service.
0:13.2	When I was growing up in rural David County,
0:17.8	of course, then they wouldn't all of the video games and computers and everything.
0:23.0	We were in the yard with balls and bats and
0:26.8	the summers when we would be home from school, we would be out.
0:31.0	The mail carrier that came through, we were always right there to see him.
0:38.6	He'd give me a little piece of candy or a piece of bubble gum or something that we don't do now.
0:44.3	My parents knew him.
0:49.8	I got to know him.
0:51.8	He was an all-around good guy.
0:54.4	Then as I grew up, seeing him, same guy all through my teen years.
1:01.9	He wasn't family, but he was close, you know what I mean?
1:06.4	And then what was his name?
1:08.1	Vernon.
1:09.4	Vernon.
1:10.4	As a child, he was what I knew to be the Postal Service,
1:15.6	the rural carriers in a lot of areas.
1:18.7	They are the picture of the Postal Service.
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