Ollie! Way to go!

I was looking for that quote about the "faithful couriers" and "gloom of night" and "neither snow nor rain" - you know, the post office one, with the intention of saying something a little grumpy but not entirely unkind, given the circumstances, about the snow part, when I ran across this bit from Oliver Wendall Holmes.

"The United States may give up the Post Office when it sees fit, but while it carries it on, the use of the mails is almost as much a part of free speech as the right to use our tongues."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841-1935
U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Milwaukee Social Democratic Publishing Co. v. Burleson, 1921

Could we arrange for somebody to read this to the DOOFUS, please?

And by the way, the Post Office quote (both quotes courtesy of Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations)...

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these faithful couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

...ascribed to Herodotus, and inscribed on the New York Post Office Building on 8th Avenue, never was officially adopted by the US Post Office and, anyway, was meant (according to Eigen) to celebrate the post-riders of ancient Persia and not your basic American mail luggers - who are, come to that, pretty cool guys too, snow or no.