(Content warning: Episode contains discussion of gun violence, workplace violence and toxic work environments)

Summary

Post Office Postmaster General William Henderson proposes giving every American a free government email address with the suffix ".us", with privacy protections like sealed mail, where the government can't read your correspondence without a warrant. Congress and customers reject it. Instead we got Gmail, where you're the product and corporations scan your messages to sell advertising. Corporations boxing out public institutions to ensure they have business.  

Episode 12 of our postal history tail reveals how the 1990s and 2000s became decades of systematic strangulation. Marvin Runyon arrived in 1992 with the nickname "Carvin' Marvin" (earned by laying off 7,000 TVA employees in one day) and eliminated 48,000  ...