Its death has been predicted for a while now, but rather than going peacefully into the night, the US Postal Service lumbers on. Georg Jensen describes the sad mutation that the USPS has undergone in recent years: “Just as General Motors has in effect subsidized Big Oil by continuing to build gas-guzzlers in recent years, so has the USPS continued to subsidize Big Mail by shaping its operations to encourage what it now calls, revealingly, “standard mail”—that is, advertising junk mail.”