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Push to Restore Postal Banking Fills Harlem Church With True Believers

By SARAH DORSEY
Posted 5/16/16

The pews of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem were filled with congregants on the night of May 12, but they weren’t worshippers in the traditional sense. Many were instead true believers in progressive causes, and they’d arrived to hear about a gospel that’s been gaining adherents of late: postal banking.

More than 50 people gathered at the meeting organized by the Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service, a coalition of unions and progressive groups opposed to shrinking the USPS and its services.

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