Can the Postal Service Survive the Pandemic?

May 27, 2020

The U.S. Postal Service has survived the telegraph, the fax machine and the dawn of the internet. But will it survive coronavirus? Guests: Nicholas Fandos, who covers Congress for The New York Times and Derek Harpe, a Postal Service worker with a mail route in Mocksville, N.C. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily 

Background reading: 

• With the coronavirus threatening the Postal Service’s financial viability, a rescue for the organization has become a political battle.

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