Here’s a true Christmas story starring the U.S. Postal Service and Santa Claus.

Earlier this week, my wife Colleen went to our local post office in Los Angeles to mail a present to her relatives in Nebraska.

The address on the package was carefully written in Colleen’s beautiful handwriting, but after she gave it to the employee behind the counter, he looked up at her and said, “I can’t read that.”

“What?” Colleen said.

“I can’t read cursive,” the postal clerk said without shame. “You’ll have to print that address.”

Colleen ended up printing out the address so the post office worker could read it. Then he typed it into a computer, printed a label and slapped on the package.

The U.S. Postal Service is an infamously inefficient and expensive government monopoly that deserved to be privatized out of existence decades ago, so it’s really not shocking that it employs a clerk who can’t read cursive.

But it’s really not the clerk’s........

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