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163 - 5-Minute English: The Post Office and Mail
My grandma permanently moved to the United States from Spain in the 1950s and the only way she could afford to keep in contact with friends and family was through writing letters; flying and international calls back then were not in her family’s budget. Email didn’t exist yet. She sent postcards and letters, pictures of her kids and eventually her grandkids. In her lifetime, the United States Postal Service (USPS) was her lifeline to the people she’d left overseas.
Today, I'll tell you a bittersweet and very informative story about my grandma and her relationship with the post office and…
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