Free the Mail

Those of us of a certain age — born before about 1970 — have fond memories of the mailman (yes, that’s what we called him, not “postal carrier”) dropping off a pile of letters and cards into the mailbox down the driveway six days a week.
But those days are long past. Now if we have something important to say — “I love you,” “I hate you,” “happy birthday” — we text or email or hop onto Instagram. Even most bills are paid electronically, so that mail function is also close to obsolete.
Yet here we are, on our nation’s 250th birthday, still hanging on to the 19th- and 20th-century idea that…
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