The Post Office Delivers: Humor.
The introduction by the then-Curator of Postal History at the Smithsonian Institution of Mat's first book, They Carried the Mail, states that, "Post Office stories have made their rounds with the mails, passed along ... it is most worthwhile that all pieces in the post-office mosiac be ... preserved on the printed page.
The Washington Star wrote, "Mat says his hobby is 'Postology,' a term he invented - but
obviously his true interest is postal people, in all their infinite variety."
Mat has authored now eleven more books on various subjects. This latest
- The Post Office Delivers: Humor - is Special Delivery!
This book contains so many postal history goofs,
gaffes and gags that the reader wonders if the Service was not created as God's
gift to comedians, rather than a government bureau to provide its citizenry
with a means of communication.
In the
recordation of these bureaucratic blunders, boondoggling, funny anecdotes,
foibles and fantastically-contrived rules and regulations hamstringing and
hog-tieing the one government agency that most comes into contact with every
citizen, the author has brilliantly captured the evolving tempo of the times.
The author has recorded the humor in the movement
of mails and the endless side-tracking and back-stepping of inept postal
politicoes.
For instance, they cut red
tape ... but lengthwise, that is! This book is the postal chronicler's magnum
opus of postal entertainment, revealing many heretofore untold,
head-scratching and leg-slappingly funny tales about America's mails.
-Excerpted from the introduction to this book - The
Post Office Delivers: Humor - as shown on the publisher's website,
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