Postal Services Sells Postal Service

Hello, recursion! The Postal Service is now selling a single from the indy band The Postal Service!

How do you form a band when you live miles and miles away from your band mates? Telephone? Videophone? Airplane? Train? Boat? Car? No, you use the U.S. Mail. Ok, that problem's solved; all the tracks are laid, the CDs are burned, now what do we call ourselves? This was the question for Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel and Figurine's Jimmy Tamborello.

They decided since the United States Postal Service was the lynchpin of their collaborative efforts, they would name their band, Postal Service.

Radley Balko's response is too priceless: "The lesser known band "Department of Agriculture" was formed when bunch of cotton growers decided to ditch the agrarian life and used their fat subsidy checks to take their fledgling bluegrass band on the road."

Such Great Heights: Postal Service [USPS]