This is a wonderful but sobering look at all our postal service does for us, and the potential cost if we lose it.

“This is the time collectively to think about the postal service,” Adra says from his office in Arlington, Virginia. He’s an assistant inspector general and heads the postal service’s internal think tank, the Risk Analysis Research Center. “This is a transformative moment. We’re like Kodak, Polaroid, IBM with mainframe, and if we don’t plan for this disruptive technology, if we ignore it, we’ll be in trouble.”

via Print – Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office? – Esquire.