No One's Got Mail
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Democrats spent months fretting last year about the Postal Service and the fate of democracy. Now the Democrats are in charge. So why is the mail slowing down? And could planned changes fix what ails the Postal Service?
Guest: Jacob Bogage, business reporter for the Washington Post.
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| 1:17.4 | Jacob, you strike me as the kind of reporter who's doing your own unofficial research |
| 1:19.8 | on postal service mail delivery times. |
| 1:22.1 | Is that, do I have your number? |
| 1:23.6 | Is that right? |
| 1:24.3 | No, because I have people who do that for me. |
| 1:29.3 | All of my mother's friends, the amount of emails or text messages that I have gotten from |
| 1:35.3 | my mom about her friends who their package is stuck in a processing plant in Richmond, |
| 1:42.3 | and they want me to write about it. |
| 1:44.9 | You know, that gives me a pretty decent metric. |
| 1:47.7 | What's the state of mail delivery? |
| 1:50.0 | Bad. |
| 1:57.6 | Jacob Bogage is a reporter at the Washington Post. |
| 2:02.9 | He's been covering the U.S. Postal service as it goes through some of its biggest changes in years. First-class mail delivery times |
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