I would have surmised it was included in Andreas Austilat's 2013 edition _A Tramp in Berlin_, but not only is the essay itself not there, i can't even find a mention of it in the volume. best w On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:21:04 -0800 Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I recently came across a reference to an essay by Mark Twain entitled >"Postal Service". This was in a series of essays written by David >Graeber included in a book entitled "The Utopia of Rules". He >remarked "Mark Twain, who lived briefly in Berlin between 1891 and >1892, was so taken with it that he composed one of his only known >non-satirical essays, entitled “Postal Service,” just to celebrate its >wondrous efficiency.". This was in reference to the German postal >system. I have been unable to locate this essay by Twain. > >I'm casting about for interesting bits about Twain's dealing with >bureaucracies. I know there are far too many of them to deal with >this comprehensively but I do hope to catch the flavor. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck Dept. of English Centre for Security and Society Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg Rempart St. 15 D-79098 Freiburg Germany