The latest episode of “Mailin’ It!,” the USPS podcast, shares how the 855 women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion cleared a massive backlog of mail for millions of U.S. soldiers during World War II.
The guest is Edna Cummings, a retired U.S. Army colonel and author of “A Soldier’s Life: A Black Woman’s Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion.”
The 33-minute episode was released May 5 and is available on Link and other postal websites, as well as most podcast platforms.
