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The satirical American writer Mark Twain knew his excessive honesty and criticism of everything he saw was wrong, and he did not hesitate to describe the president of America at the time as a "bully", as he once mocked Jane Austen, saying that he wished he could get her out of her grave to hit her on the head! But the greatest enmity of this famous writer was not with one person, but with an entire government sector, the Postal Service of the United States. Twain was angry and hated post offices and services, and he left no window of opportunity until he took advantage of the industry, published articles in newspapers and publicly clashed with members of the postal service. He once cried: "When Britain invented stamps in 1848, I felt anti-English." Twain saw no need for these complex and high-cost systems imposed by post offices. On one occasion, while in an administrative position in nevada, he tried to prevent the establishment of a post office and proposed building a prison instead. Twain went on to criticize him at one point, explaining his annoyance that the sender's address needed to be sent in detail, after all it took was the sender's name and the name of the city, and described it as a waste of time and money;