Observed arrival · 2026-10-14
Mail 10X: The town hall that voted away its mail
An interactive argument about USPS finances uses a fictional town hall to explain how rising postage and declining mail volume collide.
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- Readers following postal policy and USPS finances
- Worth noticing
- Its town-hall sequence labels five price-raising motions with familiar South Park character names.
Field notes
The narrative is organized as five town-hall motions, with each one tied to a stamp-price change and assigned to a named character. A chart compares 213 billion pieces of mail in FY2006 with 109 billion in FY2025; the page also reports USPS losses for FY2025 and FY2026. Its source list names USPS, the Postal Regulatory Commission, and the Government Accountability Office.
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