<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Here’s a nice little essay in Wired - too bad nobody told him that he could just hop over and join the Maintainers list ;-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/usps-cdc-infrastructure-appreciation-society/" class="">https://www.wired.com/story/usps-cdc-infrastructure-appreciation-society/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="content-header__title-block content-header__row" data-event-boundary="click" data-event-click="{"pattern":"TitleBlock"}" data-in-view="{"pattern":"TitleBlock"}" data-include-experiments="true"><h1 class="content-header__hed content-header__row" data-testid="ContentHeaderHed">Love the USPS? Join the Infrastructure Appreciation Society!</h1></div><div class="content-header__accreditation content-header__row"><div class="content-header__dek content-header__row">It's
a good time to salute infrastructure, from the postal system to the
CDC. Their often invisible work still needs to be tended—and honored.</div></div><div class="">
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