The letter carrier has held a hallowed place in American culture.

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It's too hallowed a tradition, even if things did work differently in John Quincy Adams' day.

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Once widely mocked for its sterility and ugliness, it has now become, in the collective memory of America, a hallowed gravesite for the thousands of people who died there--and a potent emblem of commerce, bowed but unbeaten.

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Lavin runs this hallowed institution in a Catholic town in Newfoundland with deceptive efficiency.

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