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Hanging a shingle.

I imagine this future internet as a vast, boiling miasma, punc­tu­ated by signal towers poking up into the clear air: blogs & shops, bea­cons of reality & sincerity, nodes of a human overlay net­work. Prints are pro­duced not by blending micro­scopic CMYK droplets, a la inkjet, but rather by pressing thick ink (made from rice bran oil!) It is very, VERY tempting to appeal to the insti­tu­tion’s flashy con­sti­tu­tional cameo, & to remind readers that it was founded before the United States itself … but the truth is that the postal ser­vice has been, from 1775 onward, rest­less & contested.

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