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All Sides with Ann Fisher - 5-13-2020 A - Future Of The Postal Service Amid COVID-19
 
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Postal workers continue to handle and deliver more than 150 million pieces of first-class mail a day while the coronavirus lurks and financial and political pressures on the agency mount.

President Trump wants to privatize the postal service while Congress grapples with the best way to provide relief.

Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher, the future of United State Postal Service in the age of COVID-19, financial woes and political pressure.

Guests:

Reid Epstein, political reporter, The New York Times
Maryam Jameel, reporter, ProPublica
Richard John, author of "Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse," and a history professor, Columbia University
May 13, 2020