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The whole thing with USPS hits really close because I grew up without mail service, not because it was never set up since the independence of the country, but because it got so bad (budget cuts, reduction of postal workers, and non-enforcement of mail tampering) that people just stopped using it.I know this is jokes--and quality jokes, at that--but think of all the medications and applications in that pile.
I´ve always said that in a society of my design, there would be only two civilian offenses worthy of capital punishment: murder itself and misappropriation of public funds...tampering with the mail might qualify as #3.
By the time I got old enough to deal with mail (teenage years), the only thing that you could send/receive through the postal service was cards and letters in regular-sized envelopes (large and heavier-than-usual envelopes would routinely "disappear." Packages might as well be a donation to the postal workers). We were simply reduced to sending stuff through friends/family members who would travel to the intended destination. DHL was also an option as long as folks could afford it (and it's not cheap) and the mail was going to the major urban centers of the country (where their offices were located).
The result is that to this day, more than 50% of the nation, mostly small towns and villages, is cut off from the rest of the country when it comes to being able to communicate. The US is nowhere near that level of dysfunction, but we are on that path thanks to this administration.