The Postal Service
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Nov 5, 2026
Troy McEadyHOST
So I'm just going to start with.
Troy McEadyHOST
My first one is The Postal Service, their one and only album, Give Up.
Troy McEadyHOST
The Postal Service is an album that came into my life in very early high school.
Troy McEadyHOST
I would have been a freshman, I want to say, maybe, maybe a sophomore.
Troy McEadyHOST
But that album just had such an insane impact, not only on me, but in my friend group.
Troy McEadyHOST
Like it was like very intimate.
Troy McEadyHOST
And this was like for years we would just every day go to school singing this album.
Troy McEadyHOST
And I think the postal service like really opened me up to a lot of like what would become my music taste.
Matt SidholmHOST
You've got Such Great Heights.
Matt SidholmHOST
The original was by The Postal Service.
Matt SidholmHOST
And then we have a cover song by Iron Man 1.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
several weeks of shows and when you scan the radio I hope this song will guide you they will see us waving from such great heights come down now they'll say
Samer Abu-SabieHOST
Yeah, I love the Postal Service version of the song.
Samer Abu-SabieHOST
This one would be really hard if I had to pick either one because I think they both stand on their own, like they both serve a purpose, which is ideally like, you know, the best case scenario where they both can take the song.
Samer Abu-SabieHOST
And depending on like what you're looking for, you can play either one.
Samer Abu-SabieHOST
Right.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
Megan Jasper at Sub Pop breaks down how the relationship could work with radio play as the jumping off point to sell a lot of records.
Megan JasperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One radio station that actually did get behind the Postal Service was K-Rock.
Megan JasperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And back in those days, you hoped that a commercial station would play your song and you knew that you had to support that airplay with retail programs.
Megan JasperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was a story happening in L.A. because of K-Rock.
Aaron AxelsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've done special private acoustic sessions for winners and stuff.
Aaron AxelsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we have a really strong partnership relationship.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
Subpop would take data about how many plays the Postal Service was getting on the radio across the country to ADA.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
They could parlay that into a pitch to Target to stalk the Postal Service, knowing a huge audience of people were hearing the music.
CaseHOST
I could have had a completely different list.
CaseHOST
There was no mention of Such Great Heights by the Postal Service, Man Cow's favorite band.
CaseHOST
We completely forgot about the Postal Service, which means we also forgot about Death Cab for Cutie.
CaseHOST
Right.
CaseHOST
Oh, I know.
CasePANELIST
I could have had a completely different list.
CasePANELIST
There was no mention of Such Great Heights by the Postal Service, Man Cow's favorite band.
CasePANELIST
I completely forgot about the Postal Service, which means we also forgot about Death Cab for Cutie.
CasePANELIST
Right.
speaker_10ADVERTISER
Oh,
CarmenPANELIST
Great Heights.
CarmenPANELIST
Postal Service.
CarmenPANELIST
Two.
CarmenPANELIST
Great Heights.
Tony KiewelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One of the things that has always stuck with me was when I took the Postal Service, a project I couldn't be more personally, emotionally invested in, and took that to the Seattle commercial radio station.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
That's Tony Keywell.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
He was running A&R at Sub Pop back in 2004.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
But right now, let's get back to Tony's story.
Tony KiewelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I went to college with Jimmy Tamburello.
Tony KiewelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was like the electronic mini wizard part of the postal service.
Tony KiewelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ben became one of my first friends who didn't work at Sub Pop when I moved to Seattle because he was just one of the only people whose phone numbers I had.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
This band ended up blowing up.
Michael KostaHOST
I was going, this is not Ben Folds 5.
Michael KostaHOST
This is Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie and from Postal Service.
Michael KostaHOST
Anyways, it was great to chat with him.
Michael KostaHOST
His writing process.
AlexHOST
Yeah.
AlexHOST
And before that, we had Such Great Heights by The Postal Service.
speaker_6HOST
And before that, we had Scribe, right?
AlexHOST
Yeah, that was Scribe.
Anna BurckHOST
was a couple of the Spice Girls turning 50 this year, but I picked Baby Spice, Emma Bunton.
Anna BurckHOST
Next up was the singer Ben Gibbard, lead singer of The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie.
Anna BurckHOST
And finishing here with Aussie country music legend Casey Chambers.
Anna BurckHOST
All right, time for the main round.
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