Jordan’s songs are a masterclass in being world-weary and heartsick, the way only a sensitive person in their early twenties can be, from the slow-burning “Headlock” (“When did you start seeing her?/Guess somebody finally tamed you”) to the silky “Forever (Sailing)” (“You’re taking her home/Doesn’t obsession just become you?”).īut more than a lost love, Valentine is really about how Jordan almost lost herself - particularly after her 2018 breakthrough, Lush, turned her into a nationally celebrated indie rock prodigy and burgeoning queer icon with achingly real songs like “Heat Wave” and “Pristine.” After a three-year tour and an unsuccessful attempt to tackle a follow-up, Jordan felt stuck. 5 via Matador, the indie powerhouse where she signed around her 18th birthday. That intensity carries through each of the 10 tracks on Valentine, out Nov. “I had a really good time wearing that outfit, sauntering around.” “I wanted to match the intensity of the song,” she explains. It’s a blazing rocker fueled by heartbreak and betrayal, sung with a furious new vocal power in the video, she wears a Regency-style suit while savagely murdering an ex’s new lover and stuffing her face with cake. Take the title track for her upcoming album, V alentine. Jordan works with a stylist these days to craft a precise look to get across the feeling she wants in each photo shoot or music video. “I don’t know why it’s so addicting, getting nice clothes,” she says. Even her lace face mask, which she got from her mother’s bra store in Maryland, wins her compliments from the museum guards. Clutching a black backpack and wearing a lavender sweater with white-and-brown Celine loafers, she looks like an impossibly fashionable middle schooler on a field trip. Jordan, who performs as Snail Mail, takes good care of these deep indigo jeans - later, she’ll stop in her tracks to trickle water on her knee after spilling some coffee. “I was coming back from therapy, and I was like, ‘Either I’m going to pee at my apartment or, potentially, my pants…’” Apparently, it’s time for a postal service awareness campaign.“Oh my god, I’m so sorry,” says Lindsey Jordan, 22, as she emerges from the leafy steps of Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park, half an hour late, and approaches the Cloisters. The report noted that many of these kiosks already exist, but millennials just don’t seem to be aware of them. Millennials say they wanted more self-service options, including locations besides post offices where they’d like there to be USPS kiosks, including grocery stores and school campuses, or near public transportation. The report noted that millennials are looking for convenience and immediacy in USPS services. Perhaps less surprising than the revelation that junk mail actually works is the finding that 69 percent of millennials “somewhat or very much like” getting mailed coupons for local restaurants - everyone likes a deal. Unsplash / Daria Nepriakhina What Do Millennials Want From The Post Office?Īpparently, 62 percent of millennials in the report said they had visited a store in the previous month because of information they received in the mail, which means millennials may be surprisingly receptive to marketing mail.
Offering package pickups is probably the answer here. Plus, the report found that millennials think the postal service has more conveniently located retail locations when compared to other shipping options.īut only 56 percent of millennials said they go to a physical post office to send a package, and knowing that’s an option and actually utilizing it are obviously different things. Millennials reportedly rated USPS and other shippers comparably when it comes to trust and value for money for package sending. However, many millennials noted “the process can be laborious,” so convenience seems to be key here. The report, which used the Summer 2017 Postal Omnibus Survey to analyze 3,391 US residents including 1,130 millennials, finds that millennials, Gen X, and Boomers all reported similar levels of satisfaction with the Postal Service, and 75 percent of millennials said that it’s still nice to receive personal mail and that it makes them feel “special.” called the report “overly optimistic,” and indeed, it does sort of appear that the USPS is spinning the idea that it can “ensure relevance with the next generation of consumers” with this report.īut in spite of the possibly misplaced belief that the USPS can ensure anything about millennials using the services the postal service can offer, the report did note a few interesting things about how the generation currently uses the USPS in short, many still turn to the USPS, they just do so in different ways than older customers do.