Segment from You’ve Got Mail Web Only Audio Extra: Children’s Show Post Office Montage Montage from Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood and Blue’s Clues. Rewind 15 seconds Play Fast-forward 15 seconds 00:00:00 / 00:00:00 Mute See Share options All segments from You’ve Got Mail A Walk in the Woods Peter tells the story of Alexis de Tocqueville wandering the Michigan wilderness and stumbling upon a magical institution unlike anything in France: The Post Office. 00:03:10 Nickled and Dimed Ed talks with David Henkin about the earliest letter writers, and how they cheated the postage rates of the 1830s. 00:04:20 How Much Is Too Much? Richard John and Jennifer Mercieca recount the events surrounding the first mass mailing campaign, and how it went up in flames… LITERALLY! 00:03:24 After the Deluge The Backstory hosts put the mass mailing into context and ask why the Post Office suddenly became a hotbed of controversy. 00:01:56 Try Anything Once The National Postal Museum’s Nancy Pope shares some of the technological innovations in postal history, some more practical than others. 00:05:40 Listener Calls The Backstory hosts take calls from listeners. 00:05:23 Cowboys and Mailmen BackStory producer Eric Mennel acts like a big jerk and debunks everybody’s favorite postal memory: the Pony Express. 00:05:36 Current segment Web Only Audio Extra: Children’s Show Post Office Montage Montage from Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood and Blue’s Clues. 00:00:15