Commentary

Free the Mail

By Stephen Moore
Thursday, May 21 2026

Those of us of a certain age – born before about 1970 – have fond memories of the mailman (yes, that's what we called him, not "postal carrier") dropping off a pile of letters and cards into the mailbox down the driveway six days a week. But those days are long past. Now if we have something important to say – "I love you," "I hate you," "happy birthday" – we text or email or hop onto Instagram. Even most bills are paid electronically, so that mail function is also close to obsolete. Yet here…

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