Deliverance: Writings on Postal Relations

by Marc Fischer

In 2010, Marc Fischer experienced postal trauma when he moved away from his beloved Nancy B. Jefferson Post Office on the Near West Side and became a customer of the Roberto Clemente Post Office in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, which was just three blocks from his apartment. "Rather than forfeit the ability to mail things close to home, I did what any normal person with access to social media would do: I kept going back there and then complained about it on the internet." Gathered together for the first time, DELIVERANCE presents all of Fischer's Facebook post office posts since 2011. Part archive and part therapeutic exercise, this collection documents Fischer's committed but fraught bond with Chicago's post offices.

55 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would happily read 200 more pages of Marc Fischer's diatribes / love letters to the Chicago postal system!

[lollivia · Rating 5 out of 5]

picked up in a free book pile at Revival Food Hall in downtown chicago— could not have been more delighted. what a joy to experience the more bureaucratic and boring ephemera of life ! it has inspired me to mail more from my local lincoln park postal office. perhaps to spread the joy of this book !!!

read while listening to The Postal Service’s album “Give Up”. fitting.

[Carrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny, quick read.

[Joshua Bohnsack · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found myself saying "oh yeah, I KNOW that person" meaning someone like he is describing. Reading this was a familiar experience to somewhere I've never been. Also, it makes me proud to live by the Lakeview post office.