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If you've listened to me, whether it's on my old radio shows or this podcast chewing the

fat, you know that I have always argued to be Postmaster General.

I would love the Postmaster General badge if they get one.

I would love the Postmaster General jacket if they get one.

I mean I want to, the Postmaster generals here.

I mean how cool is that?

I mean you go to meet people the postmaster general is here to see you sir

I mean you immediately command respect as postmaster general. And I believe that I could help the Postal Service do a lot better, a whole lot better.

Now the office of the Postmaster General

is the executive head of the United States Postal Service.

The Office of Postmaster General was created in 1789.

Now it was not until the administration of Andrew Jackson that the

Postmaster General was invited to sit on the president's cabinet.

So from 1872 to 1971, he was the head of the post office

department which was an agency of the US government in charge of the Postal Service.

After July 1971, the Postmaster General has been appointed by and serves under the Governor of the United States Postal Service,

which is a quasi-governmental agency that replaced the U.S. post office that same year.

Okay, so wait.

That still means that Postmaster General is good, right? I mean, look, we all have seen the stories about the Postal Service taking, you know, bribes and so that they could deliver cocaine and taking bribes and stealing mail and stealing mail that had pot in it and postal workers that don't deliver all the mail and they found, you know, once in a while they find a postal worker that kept old mail that he or she never delivered in the basement of their home.

At one point, I think I remember a story where a postal worker was throwing mail out along

the highway every so often so that they didn't have to deliver it and it would just be blowing

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