Richard J. Needham Quotes

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

If you think about what the Postal Service fundamentally does, those guys are trained to get mail and sort mail - there's trust verification.

Protecting the USPS means protecting the essential services it provides our nation.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Neither heat nor slow delivery nor gloom of mailers stays these [postal] rates from their swift rise.

The United States may give up the Post Office when it sees fit, but while it carries it on, the use of the mails is almost as much a part of free speech as the right to use our tongues.

The Postal Service exists to serve every American, regardless of where you live or what you believe.

The Postal Service is critical to our economy, our seniors and veterans who count on lifesaving medications, our small businesses that need to ship their products, and even to our democracy.

The United States Postal Service is overworked and under-funded.

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.

Mail in our country serves as an economic engine.

The United States Postal Service is one of America's oldest and most well-loved institutions. Thanks to the Postal Service, families can send letters and packages to loved ones they have not seen in months, small businesses are able to ship products to their customers, and many veterans and seniors can safely receive lifesaving medications.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.