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Editor’s note: The following story was written by Louise Uffelman for Washington and Lee University and was first published on the school’s website July 29.

Last Monday, we got a subscription renewal from a Lexington address. That letter, mailed First Class, arrived in our mailbox at the Lexington post office 13 days later. We’ve seen a dramatic increase in late mail over the past month or six weeks, which coincidentally, corresponds with directives from on high in the U.S. Postal Service to cut overtime and change standard procedures for processing mail and keeping it moving.