Welcome started her project, God Bless the USPS, long before the U.S. Postal Service became the politicized headline-maker it is today, swept up in the maelstrom of President Trump’s unfounded claims that mail-in ballots will ensure a fraudulent election. Her endeavor began as a love letter, so to speak. Her images, which she posts on Instagram with the handle @godblesstheUSPS, document the interplay between bureaucracy and community, formality and whimsy. “It’s structured and systematized, but it’s also people-powered,” she says of the Postal Service. “The interactions are so deeply human in such a mechanized space.”
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