This reminds me of slavery times when Southern postmasters refused to deliver “abolitionist” mail. Now, postmasters in certain zip codes may be looking for an excuse to treat in the same way mail with the taint of “Zionism.” From the “Forward”: The metropolitan Detroit regional office of the U.S. Postal Service issued a clarification to its branches after a local post office said it could not accept mail sent to Israel. A post office in Southfield, Mich., had told clients that mail was not deliverable to Israel because of the Israel-Gaza conflict. Ed Moore, a spokesman for USPS in the region, said Thursday that the inaccurate information shared with clients reflected a misunderstanding; during a 36-hour Federal Aviation Administration ban on flights to Tel Aviv last week, USPS offices had been instructed to tell clients that Global Express mail was unavailable, and the Southfield branch had taken that notice to mean that all mail was banned. Read more: http://forward.com/articles/203269/suburban-detroit-post-office-says-no-mail-to-israe/#ixzz397XLS4UN Important postscript: Debbie Schlussel quotes an email from a distraught grandmother in New Jersey lamenting that the U.S. Post Office refused to deliver a birthday guard to her daughter in Israel. Couple this with the State Department using excuses to virtually stop issuing visas to Israelis wanting to visit the U.S. See http://www.debbieschlussel.com/73677/update-obama-u-s-postal-service-embargo-of-israel-continues-nationwide-schlussel-on-the-case/