Stop Panicking About the Post Office

There are many reasons to be concerned about the agency’s funding, but some of the reaction is misplaced

Nick Harper
GEN
Published in
20 min readAug 15, 2020

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Rep. Adam Schiff outside a USPS office in Burbank, CA discussing the negative impact of cuts on postal services. Photo: Robyn Beck/Getty Images

A lot of fear and misinformation has been spreading throughout social media the past few days about the post office. People seem to think the sky is falling — that the United States Postal Service is in imminent danger and the…

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Nick Harper
GEN
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Political lawyer. Lobbyist. Nonprofit program director. Proceduralist and anxious, jealous guardian of democracy. “That guy from Twitter.”