In a post-postal world, Christmas still delivers
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The scent inside this squat federal building is not fir or cinnamon, but it does have its own particular holiday aroma: Spiced cardboard Priority Mail Envelopes. Mulled packing tape.
Christmas at the post office. Possibly the one time of year when everybody still makes a pilgrimage here. Over a lunch hour at this Bethesda location, the people in line at the post office stand as if they have forgotten how to be in line at the post office, as if 364 days of e-cards have left them incapable of operating ballpoint pens or responding to the orders of the middle-aged ladies who preside over their stations with an attitude best described as Stop-Your-Foolishness. Next. Next. Next?
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