As you may have gathered from the president’s multitude of tweets on the subject, the mail is a key election battleground. So this is worth noting. “Neighborhoods across the Philadelphia region are experiencing significant delays in receiving their mail, with some residents going upwards of three weeks without packages and letters, leaving them without medication, paychecks, and bills.”

+ “Post offices around the country are slashing their hours—including during the busiest times of day—with little notice as yet another abrupt cost-saving measure, according to interviews with union officials conducted by Motherboard and various local news reports. The USPS had also planned to close some offices entirely with just three weeks’ notice, likely in violation of federal law, but appears to be backtracking.” You can feel a big story gaining momentum here and nothing about it smells right. The P.U. box is the new P.O. box.

+ Meanwhile, as we try to understand the big efforts at corruption, the little ones just keep on keepin’ on. Trump directed controversial Pentagon pick into new role with similar duties after nomination failed.