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Getting mail to your door is just one part of what the postmaster general does

  • Written by Jena Martin, Professor of Law, St. Mary's University
imagePostal workers sort through mail and packages. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

The postmaster general is responsible for getting billions of pieces of mail across the globe, managing hundreds of thousands of employees and caring for some of the country’s most vulnerable Americans.

The agency is currently run by Postmaster General Louis...

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