Summer Blogging: Life and Letters XIII
Ah, summer has come to an end, it’s mailed. Thinking about how to conclude this string of posts about letters and letter writing, it turns out, quite by chance, we have two new books about the Post Office arriving for our Browsing Collection. Browsing at the post office! Well, here they are:
- Neither Snow Nor Rain: a History of the United States Postal Service by Devin Leonard
- How the Post Office Created America: A History by Winifred Gallagher
I am searching my brain for a profundity to blog, but what it seems like I have is this chance encounter with two very new (2016) titles about the Post Office as institution, so will leave this luck as punctuation. More FODYLL blogging, if not about letters, straight ahead…