Last year, Aaron Gordon, a senior writer for Vice's Motherboard, received a handwritten tip in the mail about Post Office delivery trucks catching on fire. The tip led Gordon to file a records request, which, six months later, resulted in thousands of pages of fire investigation reports. This past July, his story, "Post Office delivery trucks keep catching on fire," led readers to send him even more tips (his author tag is now mostly dominated by photos of USPS trucks). Gordon’s entrance into the Post Office beat is now proving unexpectedly useful as the plight of the U.S. Postal Service has become a national news story in recent weeks.
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