I learned so much from this! And it made me wish I could have had a personal connection with a postal worker, but growing up in the suburbs took that along with so many other things away from me. Just another thing to add to my "I hate being middle class" diary's pity party.In the early days of Amazon, the postal service held top-level meetings with Jeff Bezos to see if they could corner Amazon's shipping business.
Unrelated to the article, but I would love to hear more about why you hate being middle class.
great minds bgood79 gave his postman a bottle of whiskey for Christmas. My response, "why"? -I'm a dick.
Most of my neighborhood does that. I like to imagine he has great New Years parties. I'd never heard of people doing that before moving here though, and felt like a huge dick the first year when I was the only one who didn't give the postman booze.