Mailbag

Eurodollar University · Jun 5, 2020 · 43m

Legendary figures took on the mantle of "Mail Carrier!" including: founding father Benjamin Franklin, Wells Fargo cowboys of the Pony Express, and nice guy Mr. McFeely from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. In more recent decades the profession saw its reputation sullied. Represented at one end of the spectrum by the austere, virginal, trivia-oracle Clifford C. Clavin, Jr. and at the other end the covetous and lurid Newman.

But in this episode of Making Sense, Jeff Snider endeavors to bring back the profession's good name, just like Kevin Costner did in The Postman, a 1997 escapist fable about a…