How many of them could’ve changed a life if they’d arrived on time

It’s just one particularly dramatic example, but there’s *so many letters* in the undelivered stacks He grabs one random ancient letter off the stack and drops it off at the listed address on impulseĪnd the next day is confronted by an elderly man and woman who are finally getting married after 50 years, because her confession of love was lost in the mail

The description of how Moist von Lipwig walks through the huge, dusty piles and piles of decaying envelopesĪt this point the Fall of the Post Office is ancient history in Ankh-Morpork, and yet he sees it as it was, the humble grandeur of it, the violence it took to shut it down What about when the central hub everyone was counting on to send their mail catastrophically shuts down In the grand scheme of things, one message undelivered is no big deal, something that can be cleared up a week laterīut what about ten letters, a hundred, a thousand That the abandoned Post Office is haunted by “dead letters”Įvery letter sent but not delivered, you see, is like a tiny deathĪn open loop in the emotional fabric of the universeĪ broken promise, a missed opportunity, a lost glimpse of a world that might have been Sitting here thinking about Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, and how the initial fantasy conceit of that book was a perfect example of taking an obvious joke and running with it until it’s something dark and serious So Arthur Chu Arthur_Affect) did a long but great thread on twitter on November 5th, 2020, that I wanted to share here

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