In the grand scheme of things, one message undelivered is no big deal, something that can be cleared up a week later But what about ten letters, a hundred, a thousand What about when the central hub everyone was counting on to send their mail catastrophically shuts down
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As Pratchett vividly describes, I hope some part of him understands the sacred trust the fraternity of couriers has held since time immemorial How obscene it is to break the sacred trust one carries when you take someone's words and promise them "I'll make sure they get this"
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And unlike the letters in the book we know what a huge percentage of the mail DeJoy has ordered "held" must say Because his order to hold that mail was a conscious decision to silence those voices, to kill those messages and stop them getting through Not negligence but murder
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If a letter undelivered is a little death, a tiny gasp of unfinished business, then a vote uncast is that twice over And the ghost of those dead letters is a ghost of a better world that could have been if that sacred trust had been upheld, if those voices had been heard
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In Pratchett's goofy po-mo universe every little subculture, every random profession and avocation and fandom gets its own religion, its own gods and its own afterlife Every postman hopes their soul arrives at its destination signed, sealed, delivered
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Louis DeJoy might want to check on whether his own soul has sufficient postage and insurance Because there's a high chance that when he passes on, karma loses him in the back of the truck, and writes him off as "Lost and Undeliverable"
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So what I'm getting from all this is that you think if Biden pulls through and wins he needs to find himself a forgettable but charming con artist who's slated for execution to replace DeJoy and get the USPS running smoothly again?
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Is ... is this why prisoners are left on Death Row for so long?
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He feels nothing at all. He would destroy more if he could.
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The mailbag of Damocles
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