McCaskill letter writing idea lampooned on ‘Daily Show’

Stewart joked using stamps as adhesive tape may also be a strategy for saving the Post Office.

— U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has made it known that she is a supporter of the United States Post office, speaking at congressional hearings this week.

The Post Office, hoping to stay afloat, is studying whether it should close multiple rural Post Offices to save billions of dollars. That could mean 167 closures in Missouri alone.

McCaskill is against the closings, stressing the importance of mail service for rural communities, but had another idea that caught the idea of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a political satire program on Comedy Central.

McCaskill suggested a marketing campaign stressing the “value of the written letter.”

“I had an opportunity to go through a box of letters that my mother had from my grandmother’s house that were my letters I sent to her in college,” McCaskill said. “My kids are in college now — I don’t have a box like that.”

Stewart — poking fun at McCaskill for calling out her daughters for texting her asking for money — called the act “jedi-knight mother guilting.”

“Claire McCaskill just entered the fact that her children don’t write her enough into the Congressional Record,” he joked.

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A map from McCaskill’s office citing potential closures statewide. http://mccaskill.senate.gov/usps/

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