Maps Show How the Mail Shaped the American West - Bloomberg
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https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i4hPZkbQ_CsM/v0/-999x-999.gif In The Postman, the 1997 post-apocalyptic Western starring and directed by Kevin Costner, a supposed emissary of the U.S. Postal Service revives and reunites a smattering of rural settlements that have survived the catastrophic end of the formal United States. The mail, the movie shows us, is the connective tissue of the nation-state — providing people with not just a means of communication, but also something to look forward to. (“You give out hope like it was candy in your pocket,” a love interest tells the titular postman, in an example of the movie’s amazingly bad dialogue.)
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