Why Mark Twain Hated The US Postal Service And Publicly Feuded With Them For Decades
The great American writer trained his anger on the mail
Few people in recorded history had a way with words quite like famed author Mark Twain. He was a storyteller, but also had a razor sharp wit that he could use to crack a joke or reduce someone to a heap of ash. Accordingly, it wasn’t advisable to be on the wrong side of such a wordsmith, but that’s exactly what happened with the U.S. Postal Service, which the writer hated with a passion and was embroiled with in a very public feud for decades.
Twain was born as Samuel Clemons in Missouri in 1835. An adventurous spirit, he left school for good when he was just in the fifth grade. However, he remained ever intellectually curious, educating himself by constantly reading and spending copious amounts of time in libraries. He also had an enduring affinity for the Mississippi River, and worked for a time as a young man in the capacity of a riverboat captain, a dream he had harbored for many years, before ultimately settling into his writing career and assuming his more famous pen name.
In addition to him being known internationally, the vast majority of Americans are intimately familiar with any number of Twain’s greatest works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer…
