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Episodes: 19
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The Post Office is older than the United States, and that's not a coincidence. From the American Revolution to Rural Free Delivery, the Post Office has been a silent, foundational institution that literally built the roads and airways of modern America.
Join Aileen Day and Maia Warner-Langenbahn as they dig up the receipts and reveal the untold, radical history of this essential public good. This is a story about the unseen power that truly holds the country together, and why we all need to understand what's at stake when public institutions are under attack.
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Breaking News: The Post Office Has 12 Months to Live. Here's How We Got Here.
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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SEASON 2 TRAILER: The Fourth Estate
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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(Ep. 14) - The Postal Service We Choose: institutions serve whoever fights for them
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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(Ep. 13) - Insufficient Postage: How Other Countries Adapted While We Waited. Death of Denmark's Postal Service and UK's Royal Mail Privatized and regrets it
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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(Ep. 12) - Going Postal. USPS Toxic management culture created the phrase "going postal" after workplace shootings.
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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(Ep. 11) - Death by a Thousand Cuts. The Post Office didn't refuse to adapt, it was sabotaged. The tail of E-COM and INTELPOST
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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(Ep. 10) - POSTAL POWER! The 1970 Strike - Union History and Postal History win big
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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(Ep. 9) - Numbering the Nation: How the Post Office Create Zip Codes. Dear Zippy, With Love
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Breaking News: Postmark Changes and Amazon Contract Update (USPS News)
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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(Ep. 8) - From Savings to Surveillance: The Post Office used to offer banking, but then corporations killed it 50-years later.
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Well, I Laughed - Famous Feuds: Party Animals
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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(Ep. 7) - Return to Sender: What We Could Lose. The impact of the post office and the power of mail.
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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(Ep. 6) - Cowboys of the Sky: How the Post Office Created Commercial Aviation. This chapter of Postal History, airmail, is action packed.
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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(Ep. 5) - Special Delivery: From Farm Rebellion to Mailed Babies. Your Rural Free Delivery is here because rural America organized and fought for it
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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(Ep. 4) - Spoils of Office: Garfield, Guiteau, and Civil Service Reform. How this assassination changed civic history, government workers, the post office, and is a cornerstone of postal history.
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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(Ep. 3) - Outlaws vs the Postal Inspectors. How the first peacetime robbery involving the Post Office accidentally invents federal law enforcement as we know it.
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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(Ep. 2) - Westward Bound - How the U.S. expanded West because of the Post Office
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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(Ep. 1) - Signed, Sealed, Delivered (to Treason). How the Post Office was created before America and made the Revolution possible.
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Trailer
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Oct 28, 2025 |