Postmark Katrina

In a first-ever television event of its kind, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has teamed with The Weather Channel to produce an extraordinary story.

Postmark Katrina pays tribute to the heroic struggles of Postal Inspection Service and Postal Service employees to restore mail service to residents of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Airing tonight, Sunday,August 27, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, with an encore performance tomorrow, Monday, August 28, this episode of Storm Stories follows Postal Inspectors, Postal Police Officers, and other Postal Service employees, many of whom were themselves homeless, as they overcame overwhelming obstacles to safeguard mail from devastated areas and deliver it to the needy victims of this unprecedented natural disaster.

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