<p><strong>Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it.</strong></p><p>"With <em>First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat</em>, Christopher Shaw makes a brilliant case for polishing the USPS up and letting it shine in the 21st century."—<strong>John Nichols</strong>, national affairs correspondent for <em>The Nation</em> and author of <em>Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis</em></p><p>"<i>First Class</i> is essential reading for all postal workers and for our allies who seek to defend and strengthen our public Postal Service."—<b>Mark Dimondstein, President, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO</b></p><p>The fight over the future of the U.S. Postal Service is on. For years, corporate interests and political ideologues have pushed to remake the USPS, turning it from a publ